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# Canadian Journalist

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- [World Ocean's Day on North Atlantic](https://canadianjournalist.ca/world-oceans-day-on-north-atlantic/) - We celebrate World Oceans Day but much work needs to be done to protect the worlds oceans from pollution, climate change and over fishing on a global scale.
- [Canada Post in rural Canada](https://canadianjournalist.ca/canada-post/) - Canada Post post office in Wings Point, Gander Bay. Newfoundland and Labrador. May 18, 2025. Photo by Greg Locke.
- [Game on! Election 2025 is set for April 28](https://canadianjournalist.ca/game-on-election-2025-is-set-for-april-28/) - Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney calls the 2025 federal election for April 28 and starts his campaign in St John's, Newfoundland Photo by Greg Locke
- [Did Danielle Smith Cross The Line?](https://canadianjournalist.ca/treason-did-danielle-smith-cross-the-line/) - Alberta Premier's Danielle Smith's advice to the U.S. during Canada's election, , is beyond astonishing. Where is the line of treason?
- [Poilievre Stop in Fish Plant Smells](https://canadianjournalist.ca/poilievre-campaign-stop-in-fish-plant-smells/) - Conservative Party of Canada election campaign stop in a fishing village in Newfoundland turns into a spectacle of party animosity towards media coverage.
- [Jagmeet Singh on the campaign trail](https://canadianjournalist.ca/jagmeet-singh-on-the-campaign-trail/) - New Democratic Party leader Jagmeet Singh makes a campaign stop in St John's, Newfoundland. April 5, 2025. Photo by Greg Locke. www.greglocke.com
- [Out On The Borderline](https://canadianjournalist.ca/out-on-the-borderline/) - On the Border A story about the towns of North Portal, SK and Portal, North Dakota as they straddle the 49th Parallel international border between Canada - USA
- [Newfoundland and the 2025 Trade Wars](https://canadianjournalist.ca/newfoundland-and-the-2025-trade-wars/) - The Newfoundl;and and Labrador fishing industry could be wiped out completely with the current imposition of tariffs by the USA and China.
- [Happy 60th Birthday Maple Leaf](https://canadianjournalist.ca/happy-60th-birthday-maple-leaf/) - The Canadian Maple Leaf national flag turns 60 years old today. February 16, 2025. also has citizens flying it to protest American aggression towards Canada.
- [How to make seal flipper pie](https://canadianjournalist.ca/how-to-make-seal-flipper-pie-2/) - Water 2 tbsp. (25 mL) vinegar 3 slices fat-back pork Salt to taste Pepper to taste 1 onion, sliced 1 large carrot, sliced 1 turnip, cubed 2 tbsp. (25 mL) screech 3 cups ( 750 mL) water Flour Pastry: 1 cup (250 mL) flour 1-1/2 tsp. (7 mL) baking powder 1 tbsp. (15 mL) margarine
- [Be Safe In Cyberspace](https://canadianjournalist.ca/be-safe-in-cyberspace/) - Stay safe in cyberspace. Things you can do to protect yourself and your data while travelling online and using social media.
- [Eclipse over Eclipse Island, Newfoundland.](https://canadianjournalist.ca/eclipse-over-eclipse-island-newfoundland/) - Total solar eclipse over Eclipse Island, Burgeo, Newfoundland. Canada. April 8, 2024. Island named by Capt James Cook in 1766. Photographed by Greg Locke
- [Deafening as a Rocket Lifting Off: Marine Noise Is Growing Threat](https://canadianjournalist.ca/calling-all-ships-slow-down-save-a-life/) - Underwater, the a ship propellor can be as loud as a jet engine. Conservationists want Ottawa to make good on its promise to curb dangerous underwater noise
- [Jasper's inferno proves that Canada needs a national wildfire strategy](https://canadianjournalist.ca/jaspers-inferno-proves-that-canada-needs-a-national-wildfire-strategy/) - By Edward Struzik, Queen's University, Ontario This article was originally published by The Conversation. In what is becoming an unfortunately common occurrence, the town of Jasper, Alta., has been ravaged by a wildfire of unprecedented scale. Crews report witnessing “300- to 400-foot flames,” while one-third of Jasper’s buildings were destroyed. Luckily, there have been
- [Brian Mulroney Was Controversial, Consequential, And Divisive](https://canadianjournalist.ca/brian-mulroney-was-controversial-consequential-and-divisive/) - Former Canadian Prime Minister Brian Mulroney dies at age 84 in Florida, USA. He was Controversial, consequential and divisive
- [Column: Bell Canada Owes Canadians](https://canadianjournalist.ca/column-bell-canada-owes-canadians/) - Bell Canada owes Canadian because of conditions in its broadcast licences from the CRTC. Ottawa should act to enforce them.
- [Innu file suit as human rights report slams Canada for abuse](https://canadianjournalist.ca/innu-file-suit-as-human-rights-report-slams-canada-for-abuse/) - Canadian Human Rights reports slams Canadian government for 30 years of abuse of rights of the Innu people of Labrador and failure to settle lands claims.
- [Column: The West's New Top Justice Is Indigenous. So What?](https://canadianjournalist.ca/column-the-wests-new-top-justice-is-indigenous-so-what/) - When an Indigenous person reaches Canada's top ranks, Ottawa no longer shouts the news from the rooftops. It's almost become common--and that is a massive shift
- [Winter adventures](https://canadianjournalist.ca/winter-adventures/) - They say you have to embrace winter to enjoy it. This group of friends had a bracing dip in Georges Pond on Signal Hill in St John's, Newfoundland this week. The Ice or Cold Therapy trend is popular this winter and participants say it has many health benefits. Photo by Greg Locke
- [Support for Palestine in Canada](https://canadianjournalist.ca/support-for-palestinian-in-canada/) - Canadians protest the support of the bombing of Gaza, supplying arms to Israel, cancelling of support for UNRWA which provide humanitarian aid to Palestinians.
- [Bonavista Biennale beckons](https://canadianjournalist.ca/bonavista-biennale-beckons/) - BONAVISTA, Newfoundland - While there are massive music concerts and arts festivals all over the world, usually in urban areas, that attract thousands of people, often those in remote and out-of-the-way places offer a more engaging and immersive experience. The Bonavista Biennale is one of those. As the name says, it's located in and around
- [What next? ...after Canada's Day of Truth and Reconciliation](https://canadianjournalist.ca/what-next-after-canadas-day-of-truth-and-reconciliation/) - What next? …after Canada’s Day of Truth and Reconciliation VANCOUVER, B.C. - Canada’s first National Day for Truth and Reconciliation saw a national outpouring of grief and anger over indigenous residential schools, and the genocide of Canada’s aboriginal peoples. Now that the day’s drums are stilled, the joined voices of lament silenced, the symbolic orange shirts doffed, flames of sacred fires become ember, what?
- [Alexa McDonough dies at age 77](https://canadianjournalist.ca/alexa-mcdonough-dies-at-age-77/) - By Greg Locke HALIFAX, NS - Alexa McDonough, the trailblazing politician who the the Nova Scotia and then federal NDP parties, died Jan 15, 2022, after a long battle with Alzheimer's . She was 77. Born Alexa Ann Shaw in Ottawa on August 11, 1944, she married the late Peter McDonough in Halifax in 1966. She began
- [Queen Elizabeth II marks Platinum Jubilee](https://canadianjournalist.ca/queen-elizabeth-ii-marks-platinum-jubilee/) - LONDON, UK - Sunday, February 6 will mark Queen Elizabeth II's Platinum Jubilee, a first for a British monarch noting 70 years reign as Monarch of Great Britain. Elizabeth, 95, became the queen of Britain and more than a dozen other realms including Canada, Australia and New Zealand on the death of her father King
- [Liberals lose poll lead in election 2021 gamble](https://canadianjournalist.ca/liberals-lose-poll-lead-in-election-2021-gamble/) - Liberals lose poll lead in election 2021 gamble
- [The terrifying mathematics of the Anthropocene](https://canadianjournalist.ca/the-terrifying-mathematics-of-the-anthropocene/) - By Owen Gaffney and Will Steffen, February, 2017 Here are some surprising facts about humans’ effect on planet Earth. We have made enough concrete to create an exact replica of Earth 2mm thick. We have produced enough plastic to wrap Earth in clingfilm. We are creating “technofossils”, a new term for congealed human-made materials – plastics and
- [Suncor may abandon Terra Nova offshore oil field](https://canadianjournalist.ca/suncor-to-abandon-terra-nova-offshore-oil-field/) - St. John’s, Newfoundland (May 27, 2021) - Calgary based Suncor Energy, lead operator of the Terra Nova offshore oil field on the Grand Banks of Newfoundland, says it will most likely be abandoning the oil field if it cannot come to an agreement with its seven partners. Mark Little, the CEO of Suncor, told investors
- [11:11:11](https://canadianjournalist.ca/111111-2/) - 11:11:11 Remembrance Day in a time of COVID by Deborah Jones. On this day, most years, we’d stand shivering to witness sober parades and ceremonies of war vets
- [Remembering War](https://canadianjournalist.ca/remembering-war/) - War and remembrance by photojournalist Greg Locke. After Bosnia, Rwanda, Haiti, Somalia, Croatia, Sudan I can't do remembrance day any more.
- [Turkey’s dispute with Europe feeds Erdogan’s power thirst](https://canadianjournalist.ca/turkeys-dispute-with-europe-feeds-erdogans-power-thirst/) - JONATHAN MANTHORPE: International Affairs March 18, 2017 The Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte this week saw off a serious populist challenge from bleach-blonde Islamaphobe Geert Wilders, but in so doing he has unwittingly given another demagogue the leg-up he needs to achieve supreme power. The diplomatic face-off between the Netherlands and Turkey in the last
- [Everyday chemicals affect brain, IQ -- study](https://canadianjournalist.ca/everyday-chemicals-affect-brain-iq-study/) - By Barbara Demeneix, Muséum national d’histoire naturelle (MNHN) – Sorbonne Universités May, 2017 All vertebrates – from frogs and birds to human beings – require the same thyroid hormone to thrive. Every stage of brain development is modulated by thyroid hormone and, over millions of years, the structure of this critical hormone has remained unchanged. But,
- ["Green" investment funds spring back](https://canadianjournalist.ca/green-investment-funds-spring-back/) - By Ross Kerber May, 2017 BOSTON (Reuters) - After U.S. President Donald Trump's election last November, investors pulled nearly $68 million (53 million pounds) from so-called "green" mutual funds, reflecting fear that his pro-coal agenda would hurt renewable energy firms. But now investors are pouring money back in, boosting net deposits in 22 green funds
- [Trump Cries Havoc! - Dogs (still) Kenneled](https://canadianjournalist.ca/trump-cries-havoc-dogs-still-kenneled/) - JONATHAN MANTHORPE: International Affairs June 10, 2017 Donald Trump in the last few days has given the world a master class on how ignorance and miscalculation by a United States president can trigger conflict and set the stage for war. Look at what has happened this week since Trump’s pronouncement late last month that
- [New website coming soon!](https://canadianjournalist.ca/new-website-coming-soon/) - Welcome to Canadian Journalist, formerly Facts & Opinions. We are re-branding and re-launching our site to focus on Canadian news, journalism, feature stories, and professional analysis. We remain an independent news organization produced by professional journalists, editors, and media producers. We strive to bring you the best in trusted, professional content. With the
- [Life goes on in rural Newfoundland](https://canadianjournalist.ca/life-goes-on-in-rural-newfoundland/) - Newfoundland photographer Greg Locke re-visits rural Newfoundland 30 years after the close of the inshore cod fishery putting more than 30,000 people out of work and forcing an exodus from the region.
- [Newfoundland's Offshore Account](https://canadianjournalist.ca/newfoundlands-offshore-account/) - The offshore oilfields off the coast of Newfoundland, Canada in the north west Atlantic Ocean are pretty small compared to the operations in the North Sea and Gulf of Mexico but the royalties have not only kept Canada's historically impoverished eastern province from bankruptcy and propelled it into one of Canada's economic hot spots. Photo Essay by Greg Locke
- [Under a malaria moon](https://canadianjournalist.ca/under-a-malaria-moon/) - Field notes and photos from travels in east Africa by photojournalist Greg Locke.
- [Locke: a malaria moon](https://canadianjournalist.ca/locke-a-malaria-moon/) - Greg Locke 's gallery exhibit of the conflict, humanitarian crisis and daily life he captured, over nearly a decade, in words and photos in eastern and central Africa.
- [British Election Brings Mayhem](https://canadianjournalist.ca/british-election-brings-mayhem/) - JONATHAN MANTHORPE: International Affairs June 9, 2017 British voters have shown Prime Minister Theresa May the door. Her gamble to call an early election in the expectation of strengthening her Conservative majority in parliament – and thus her clout in upcoming negotiations on the United Kingdom leaving the European Union – failed dramatically. When the
- [Singapore rocked by ruling family feud](https://canadianjournalist.ca/singapore-rocked-by-ruling-family-feud/) - ear Readers, I am taking a sabbatical from my weekly columns in Facts and Opinions in order to finish writing a book that I started a few months ago. The book is on matters very much in the news, so it needs to be finished as soon as feasible, with the aim of publishing in
- [For Britain, friendless desert looms behind Brexit door](https://canadianjournalist.ca/for-britain-friendless-desert-looms-behind-brexit-door/) - Dear Readers, I am taking a sabbatical from my weekly columns in Facts and Opinions in order to finish writing a book that I started a few months ago. The book is on matters very much in the news, so it needs to be finished as soon as feasible, with the aim of publishing in
- [Reflections of a Canadian abroad as Canada turns 150](https://canadianjournalist.ca/reflections-of-a-canadian-abroad-as-canada-turns-150/) - TOM REGAN: SUMMONING ORENDA July 1, 2017 I never thought I would end up in rural Virginia, 40 miles outside Washington, DC. Never. I never thought I would live anywhere but Canada, or anywhere other than Nova Scotia, for that matter. But there was this girl, and for the past 25 years I’ve lived on the
- [Dear Americans: Enough, Already](https://canadianjournalist.ca/dear-americans-enough-already/) - DEBORAH JONES: FREE RANGE August 19, 2017 Lacking ear plugs strong enough to block the din from America blasting the world, or a mega-phone loud enough to counter the babble, I’m resorting to two letters. Dear non-Americans: There's a big world out there. Please remember that fact as we remain transfixed on America’s latest horrific
- [Innu first nations kept out of Labrador negotiations.](https://canadianjournalist.ca/innu-first-nations-kept-out-labrador-negotiations/) - NATUASHISH, Newfoundland and Labrador - The Innu National is again being ignored and kept in the dark over negotiations between Canadian and Newfoundland provincial governments with regard to development of hydro projects in Labrador. The Province and Ottawa reached a financial restructuring deal this week and Innu leaders found out about it on the news.
- [Fidel Castro and the Defeat of South African's Apartheid](https://canadianjournalist.ca/fidel-castro-and-the-defeat-of-south-africans-apartheid/) - JONATHAN MANTHORPE: International Affairs December 3, 2016 Many people questioned it then and continue to question it now, but Nelson Mandela had no doubt that Fidel Castro played a central and critical role in the defeat of apartheid in South Africa. In 1991, the year after his release from prison and the start of the
- [Canada, Fraudster’s Nirvana](https://canadianjournalist.ca/canada-fraudsters-nirvana/) - JONATHAN MANTHORPE: International Affairs December 9, 2016 There is a fine line between thinking the best of people, and being a sucker for every con artist, fraudster and runaway crook who comes along. Canada all too often crosses that line without realising it. There is a blithe strain in Canadian culture that believes corruption
- [Fake News and Our Happiness Disorder](https://canadianjournalist.ca/fake-news-and-our-happiness-disorder/) - DEBORAH JONES: FREE RANGE December, 2016 How do we “know” what we “know?” Nope, this isn’t a trick question on an epistemology course. It’s the key to our lives, from the mundane (is that food safe to eat?) to social (can I trust that person?) to the most technical of calculations (how do I design a sound airplane?). Our world is built on evidence-based decision-making. In democracies, we depend on having
- [Battle Ends, Bloody Syrian War Grinds On](https://canadianjournalist.ca/battle-ends-bloody-syrian-war-grinds-on/) - By Laila Bassam, Angus McDowall and Stephanie Nebehay Rebel resistance in the Syrian city of Aleppo ended on Tuesday after years of fighting and months of bitter siege and bombardment that culminated in a bloody retreat, as insurgents agreed to withdraw in a ceasefire. The battle of Aleppo, one of the worst of a civil
- [Britain's tortuous road to "hard" Brexit](https://canadianjournalist.ca/britains-tortuous-road-to-hard-brexit/) - JONATHAN MANTHORPE: International Affairs December 17, 2016 Day by day it is becoming clearer just how wrenching a process it will be for Britain to leave the European Union (EU). It is now beyond doubt that Britain is headed for a "hard" Brexit, or "clean" break with the EU, as supporters prefer to call it.
- [After looking into Trump’s soul, Japan’s Abe seeks new allies](https://canadianjournalist.ca/after-looking-into-trumps-soul-japans-abe-seeks-new-allies/) - JONATHAN MANTHORPE: International Affairs December 31, 2016 It is now pretty clear that when Shinzo Abe rushed to meet Donald Trump, even while the votes were being counted in November, the Japanese Prime Minister didn’t have a Margaret Thatcher or George W Bush moment. After Thatcher met then-Russian President Mikhail Gorbachev in 1984 she said
- [Human Rights: There’s an App for that](https://canadianjournalist.ca/human-rights-theres-an-app-for-that/) - JONATHAN MANTHORPE: International Affairs January 7, 2017 At the heart of one of the most effective and simple human rights campaigns of recent years is a box on a roof in Beijing. In its quiet way, that box has confirmed for the Chinese people what they instinctively knew; that their government lies to them consistently
- [Thailand’s Game of Thrones enters new era](https://canadianjournalist.ca/thailands-game-of-thrones-enters-new-era/) - A woman walks past a portrait of Thailand's King Maha Vajiralongkorn Bodindradebayavarangkun at a department store in central Bangkok, Thailand January 13, 2017. REUTERS/Athit Perawongmetha JONATHAN MANTHORPE: International Affairs January 14, 2017 While people in the United States grapple with having done exactly what the Founding Fathers railed against and have elected a cartoon version
- [Russia's Military Buildup Focuses on Arctic](https://canadianjournalist.ca/russias-military-buildup-focuses-on-arctic/) - By Andrew Osborn February, 2017 MURMANSK, Russia (Reuters) - The nuclear icebreaker Lenin, the pride and joy of the Soviet Union's Arctic great game, lies at perpetual anchor in the frigid water here. A relic of the Cold War, it is now a museum. But nearly three decades after the Lenin was taken out of
- [Pins are out for the Trump balloon](https://canadianjournalist.ca/pins-are-out-for-the-trump-balloon/) - JONATHAN MANTHORPE: International Affairs January 20, 2017 Even as the inaugural party hangovers still throb in Washington, leaders in other capitals are dreaming up ways to discover what kind of blow-hard Donald Trump is. He has given them plenty to work with over the last couple of years with his ignorant and intemperate outbursts. But
- [Canada's Trudeau Avoids Poking U.S. "Grizzly Bear"](https://canadianjournalist.ca/canadas-trudeau-avoids-poking-u-s-grizzly-bear/) - By David Ljunggren and Rod Nickel February, 2017 OTTAWA/WINNIPEG (Reuters) - Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is taking a low key approach to dealing with U.S. President Donald Trump, seeking to avoid clashes while indirectly signalling the two leaders' differences to a domestic audience. Insiders acknowledge the cautious strategy could anger progressives whose support helped
- [Media literacy in a post-fact age](https://canadianjournalist.ca/media-literacy-in-a-post-fact-age/) - PENNEY KOME: OVER EASY February, 2017 Fake news is as old as the Internet. From the 1990s, I remember spam, scams, and ghost ship "rolling" petitions that sailed the white-font-on-black-background PINE and LYNX seas – almost as soon as the first E-list was compiled. Spam couldn't easily penetrate Usenet – the threaded online discussion Bulletin Boards, or
- [Canada needs ranked, not proportional, voting](https://canadianjournalist.ca/canada-needs-ranked-not-proportional-voting/) - TOM REGAN: SUMMONING ORENDA February 11, 2017 Like many Canadians (even those of us who live abroad and may have dual citizenship) who had hoped that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau would follow through on his campaign promise to reform the voting system in Canada, I found myself deeply disappointed by his sudden announcement, that he
- [Churchill essay on aliens timely reminder of modern dangers](https://canadianjournalist.ca/churchill-essay-on-aliens-timely-reminder-of-modern-dangers/) - February 18, 2017 Buried within the archives of a museum in Missouri, an essay on the search alien life has come to light, 78 years after it was penned. Written on the brink of the second world war, its unlikely author is the political leader Winston Churchill. If the British prime minister was seeking solace
- [Canada-EU Pact Touted as Model Trade Deal](https://canadianjournalist.ca/canada-eu-pact-touted-as-model-trade-deal/) - By Philip Blenkinsop February, 2017 STRASBOURG (Reuters) - Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau praised the European Union as an unprecedented model for peaceful cooperation, in a speech to EU lawmakers that contrasted sharply with the critical stance of U.S. President Donald Trump. Speaking to the European Parliament on February 16, a day after it backed
- [Renewed Scottish campaign to leave post-Brexit UK](https://canadianjournalist.ca/renewed-scottish-campaign-to-leave-post-brexit-uk/) - JONATHAN MANTHORPE: International Affairs March 4, 2017 In these times of seething rage, it is increasingly likely that Britain’s divorce from the European Union will lead to the break-up of the United Kingdom itself. As the parliament in Westminster completes the process of giving Prime Minister, Theresa May, authority to start the process of
- [More than 100 million at risk of starvation](https://canadianjournalist.ca/more-than-100-million-at-risk-of-starvation/) - An internally displaced man looks at the carcasses of his goats and sheep in the outskirts of Dahar town of Puntland state in northeastern Somalia, December 15, 2016. REUTERS/Feisal Omar By Umberto Bacchi March, 2017 ROME (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - The number of people facing severe hunger worldwide has surpassed 100 million and will grow
- [Environmentally-sound agriculture can support farmers and consumers](https://canadianjournalist.ca/environmentally-sound-agriculture-can-support-farmers-and-consumers/) - Agroecology can help fix the food, water and energy challenges that conventional agriculture has created. By Andrea Basche and Marcia DeLonge March, 2017 The past several years have been rough for many U.S. farmers and ranchers. Net farm incomes this year could fall to 50 percent of 2013 levels in a fourth consecutive year of income
- [Americans’ Addiction to Drinking the Kool-Aid](https://canadianjournalist.ca/americans-addiction-to-drinking-the-kool-aid/) - JONATHAN MANTHORPE: International Affairs March 11, 2017 The United States is singularly prone to producing charlatans, messianic faith healers, snake oil merchants, flim-flam artists and all kinds of Pied Pipers who beguile, befuddle and bemuse large numbers of the population. Donald Trump is a representative example of this flaw in the U.S. cultural DNA. But
- [McGill University mangles academic freedom](https://canadianjournalist.ca/mcgill-university-mangles-academic-freedom/) - TOM REGAN: SUMMONING ORENDA March 25, 2017 I recently experienced a moment of cosmic irony. I had just learned that Andrew Potter, a former editor of the Ottawa Citizen, had "resigned" as head of the Institute for the Study of Canada at McGill University in Montreal, when I received an email from McGill touting that another of their own, Karina
- [Sri Lanka’s slow shuffle to lasting peace](https://canadianjournalist.ca/sri-lankas-slow-shuffle-to-lasting-peace/) - JONATHAN MANTHORPE: International Affairs March 25, 2017 COLOMBO, Sri Lanka -- After all wars, the euphoria of peace quickly gives way to the bleak, forbidding reality of the human and physical toll that must now be rebuilt. Occasionally there is a peace dividend. The energy and optimism required to deal with physical reconstruction overshadows and makes
- [Beijing brings order to its colonial “Savage Reservations”](https://canadianjournalist.ca/beijing-brings-order-to-its-colonial-savage-reservations/) - JONATHAN MANTHORPE: International Affairs April 1, 2017 Beijing is reaching back into the excesses of Maoist Stalinism and forward into the high-tech social control of Aldous Huxley's "Brave New World" to try to contain the restive natives of its colonial outposts, Tibet and Xinjiang. And Beijing's problems with its occupied territories don't end there. After
- [“The Rock” Caught In A Hard Place](https://canadianjournalist.ca/the-rock-caught-in-a-hard-place/) - JONATHAN MANTHORPE: International Affairs April 8, 2017 Legend has it that as long as the five troops of 300 Barbary Apes continue to live in Gibraltar, the 6.7 square kilometre peninsular on Spain’s southern tip will remain British. But as the reality of Britain’s exit from the European Union begins to bite, the future of
- [Americans turn Canadian about health care](https://canadianjournalist.ca/americans-turn-canadian-about-health-care/) - After six years with Obamacare, public opinion forces Republicans to think "expansion," not "repeal." PENNEY KOME: OVER EASY April, 2017 American attitudes towards universal healthcare insurance have long baffled the rest of the world. Only in the US is serious illness a ticket to bankruptcy and the food bank. How is this conducive to healing?
- [From Vimy to Gibraltar, Obamacare to Russia: Journalism Matters at F&O](https://canadianjournalist.ca/from-vimy-to-gibraltar-obamacare-to-russia-journalism-matters-at-fo/) - This slideshow requires JavaScript. New on F&O this weekend: Sunday April 9 marked the 100th anniversary of the WWI battle of Vimy Ridge -- said to have marked Canada's passage from colony to country status. Read our report with photo-essay by Reuters, France, Canada leaders mark centenary of Vimy Ridge WWI battle. In Commentary Tom Regan notes that for Canada and the United States,
- [France, Canada leaders mark centenary of Vimy Ridge](https://canadianjournalist.ca/france-canada-leaders-mark-centenary-of-vimy-ridge/) - By Miranda Alexander-Webber April 9, 2017 ARRAS, France (Reuters) - French President Francois Hollande and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau led commemorations on Sunday marking the centenary of the Battle of Vimy Ridge in northern France in which over 3,500 Canadian soldiers were among the dead. A giant poppy made up of messages of love
- [Demands grow for South Africa’s Zuma to go](https://canadianjournalist.ca/demands-grow-for-south-africas-zuma-to-go/) - JONATHAN MANTHORPE: International Affairs April 15, 2017 It is fitting symbolism that one of the most intense of the many mass demonstrations in recent days, demanding the removal of South African President Jacob Zuma, was in the square in front of Cape Town’s City Hall. It was in this same square on the evening of
- [Legalized weed in Canada an idea whose time has come](https://canadianjournalist.ca/legalized-weed-in-canada-an-idea-whose-time-has-come/) - TOM REGAN: SUMMONING ORENDA April 15, 2017 One night, more than 30 years ago, I was working bar with a friend in downtown Dartmouth, Nova Scotia. (I tended bar several nights a week to earn spending money for college.) One of our customers had one drink, then got up and left. He had looked a little
- [Trump ain’t seen nothing yet, Iran to top agenda](https://canadianjournalist.ca/trump-aint-seen-nothing-yet-iran-tops-agenda/) - JONATHAN MANTHORPE: International Affairs April 22, 2017 Donald Trump’s first rounds on the international putting green have not been a great success. His firing of 59 cruise missiles at a Syrian airfield after telling the Russians – and therefore the Syrians – what was about to happen had the flavour of a farcical diversionary tactic.
- [Press freedoms at tipping point: RSF](https://canadianjournalist.ca/press-freedoms-at-tipping-point-rsf/) - Press freedom is declining globally, warns Reporters Without Borders/Reporters sans frontières, today releasing the 2017 World Press Freedom Index showing press freedoms "in the worst state we have ever seen." "Once taken for granted, media freedom is proving to be increasingly fragile in democracies," said an RSF analysis. Authoritarian regimes and dictatorships are not the only culprits for abuse, it said. "In
- [Venezuela spins at the rim of a black hole](https://canadianjournalist.ca/venezuela-spins-at-the-rim-of-a-black-hole/) - JONATHAN MANTHORPE: International Affairs May 5, 2017 Venezuela is being sucked into a political and social vacuum because neither its local leaders nor regional players have the slightest idea where the country of 30 million people should be heading or how to get there. The awful probability is that the vacuum will be filled by
- [Trump-Kim smackdown leaves South Koreans cold](https://canadianjournalist.ca/trump-kim-smackdown-leaves-south-koreans-cold/) - JONATHAN MANTHORPE: International Affairs May 13, 2017 For a while it looked as though Donald Trump was the white horse on a cresting wave of right-wing demagogy rushing to break over liberal democracies world-wide. But the defeat of Trump’s neo-Nazi fellow travellers in Holland and France, and now the election this week of a left-liberal
- [India’s Maoist uprising morphs into women’s armed insurgency](https://canadianjournalist.ca/indias-maoist-uprising-morphs-into-womens-armed-insurgency/) - JONATHAN MANTHORPE: International Affairs May 20, 2017 Women guerrilla fighters are at the forefront of an emerging insurgent war in India aimed at protecting women from sexual violence and human rights abuse. On April 24, about 300 guerrillas, half of them women, attacked a police outpost guarding road construction workers in Sukma district in
- [Broad alliances trump Trump for Israeli security](https://canadianjournalist.ca/broad-alliances-trump-trump-for-israeli-security/) - JONATHAN MANTHORPE: International Affairs May 27, 2017 Israel lives in a hostile neighbourhood, and has always had trouble making and keeping trustworthy friends. Many of the European countries were supportive both before and immediately after the founding of the state of Israel in 1948. That support, though, grew on a strong sense of shame for
- [Theresa May’s election victory no longer certain](https://canadianjournalist.ca/theresa-mays-election-victory-no-longer-certain/) - JONATHAN MANTHORPE: International Affairs June 3, 2017 Six weeks ago, when Britain’s Prime Minister Theresa May called a snap election, it seemed a foregone conclusion this was simply a formality to boost her parliamentary majority and strengthen her hand in negotiating Brexit from the European Union. Not any more. The smell in the air now
- [Scandinavia Tackles Fairy Tale Gendering](https://canadianjournalist.ca/scandinavia-tackles-fairy-tale-gendering/) - By Gabrielle Richard, Université Paris-Est Créteil Val de Marne (UPEC) December, 2016 In Stockholm’s Nicolaigarden pre-school, the teachers do not read Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs to the students. Rather, its library holds children’s books that show different types of heroes and a diversity of family models (including those with single parents, adoptive children, and
- [Newfoundland's fourth offshore oil project set to sail](https://canadianjournalist.ca/newfoundlands-fourth-offshore-oil-project-set-to-sail/) - HEBRON. Newfoundland's fourth, and largest, offshore oil production project prepares to come online twenty years after Hibernia kicked off the province's oil boom. by Greg Locke
- [Leonard Cohen, Poet, Rocker, Mystic, Dead at 82](https://canadianjournalist.ca/leonard-cohen-poet-rocker-mystic-dead-at-82/) - By Alex Dobuzinskis November 10, 2016 LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Leonard Cohen, rock music's man of letters whose songs fused religious imagery with themes of redemption and sexual desire, earning him critical and popular acclaim, has died at age 82, a statement on his Facebook page said. "It is with profound sorrow we report that
- [Journalism at risk from surveillance, data collection: UNESCO report](https://canadianjournalist.ca/journalism-at-risk-from-surveillance-data-collection-unesco-report/) - By Julie Posetti May 3, 2017 The ability of journalists to report without fear is under threat from mass surveillance and data retention. Released this week, my UNESCO report Protecting Journalism Sources in the Digital Age shows that laws protecting journalists and sources globally are not keeping up with the challenges posed by indiscriminate data collection
- [Africville: Nova Scotia's blacks remember](https://canadianjournalist.ca/africville-nova-scotias-blacks-remember/) - DEBORAH JONES: FREE RANGE July 02, 1988 Halifax, NS, Canada -- In Halifax today, what used to be Africville , with all the rich and negative connotations of that name, is a little-used park on the windswept edge of Halifax harbor. From a stark concrete building nearby emanates the clamor and stench of the city's
- [Vancouver fights graffiti with graffiti](https://canadianjournalist.ca/vancouver-fights-graffiti-with-graffiti/) - DEBORAH JONES: FREE RANGE July, 2005 The very first time he tried writing graffiti, Robbie, a talented teenager whose art has sold in galleries, blundered into Vancouver's war on graffiti. As he and another high-school student spray-painted images on a seaside retaining wall, an undercover police officer in Canada's first designated graffiti squad nabbed the
- [Muskrat Falls hydroelectric - Who buried the risk assessment report?](https://canadianjournalist.ca/muskrat-falls-who-buried-the-risk-assessment-report/) - Public inquiry into the construction delays and cost overruns of the Muskrat Falls hydro electric project on the CHurchill River in Newfoundland and Labrador
- [San Miguel de Allende: “NAFTA of Literary Festivals” ](https://canadianjournalist.ca/san-miguel-de-allende-nafta-of-literary-festivals/) - By Brian Brennan March, 2018 "Meet acclaimed Canadian authors in San Miguel!" said the invitation. How could one resist? According to the program, three of the seven keynote speakers at this year’s Writers' Conference & Literary Festival in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico – Emma Donoghue, John Vaillant and Joseph Boyden – would be Canadian. They
- [Arrest of anti-piracy mercenaries highlights maritime security](https://canadianjournalist.ca/indias-arrest-of-anti-piracy-mercenaries-highlights-maritime-securit/) - JONATHAN MANTHORPEPublished: October 23, 2013 Piracy and ship hijackings have spawned a worrying boom in largely-unregulated security companies offering armed mercenaries to protect merchant ships plying dangerous waters. However, the perils of having freelance guns-for-hire roaming the high seas have been again brought to the fore since the Indian Coast Guard last week arrested an
- [Beijing attempts to provoke conflict with Vietnam over maritime claims](https://canadianjournalist.ca/beijing-attempts-to-provoke-conflict-with-vietnam-over-maritime-claims/) - JONATHAN MANTHORPEMay 9, 2014. The Chinese government seems determined to provoke a military clash with its neighbours over disputed ownership of islands and conflicting maritime boundaries. This week’s clashes between Vietnamese naval and coast guard vessels, and Chinese ships defending a deep-sea oil rig Beijing’s state-owned China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC) has parked in
- [Beijing collides with China’s new community of human rights lawyers](https://canadianjournalist.ca/beijing-collides-with-chinas-new-community-of-human-rights-lawyers/) - JONATHAN MANTHORPE: International Affairs July 17, 2015 Having used his anti-corruption campaign to remove any challengers to his power atop China’s Communist Party, President Xi Jinping is now bent on crushing increasingly assertive and publicly influential human rights lawyers. Last weekend, in an extraordinary demonstration of Xi’s determination to squash dissent, nearly 200 lawyers and associates
- [Beijing bristles as Taiwan prepares to elect pro-independence opposition](https://canadianjournalist.ca/beijing-bristles-as-taiwan-prepares-to-elect-pro-independence-opposition/) - JONATHAN MANTHORPE: International Affairs July 24, 2015 Taiwan’s voters are preparing for a rocky ride as they appear set to elect an opposition Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) administration dedicated to preserving the independence of the island and its 23 million people. If the voters in next year’s presidential election do what they are now telling pollsters
- [Anti-China sentiments boil in Hong Kong](https://canadianjournalist.ca/anti-china-sentiments-boil-in-hong-kong/) - JONATHAN MANTHORPEPublished: October 11, 2013 When a young mainland Chinese women was hit by a truck in Hong Kong and died in hospital on Tuesday, the territory’s social media networks throbbed with messages not of sympathy, but with hatred of everything she represented. Thousands of messages were posted on social media sites saying, with varying
- [1914 and the China Syndrome](https://canadianjournalist.ca/1914-and-the-china-syndrome/) - JONATHAN MANTHORPEJanuary 1, 2014 The hundredth anniversary of the start of the First World War is hardly upon us and the air is already thick with speculation it might happen again. At one level, this is completely understandable. The First World War, and its continuation in the 1930s and 40s, was the most calamitous event
- [Arab Spring still waiting to blossom](https://canadianjournalist.ca/arab-spring-still-waiting-to-blossom/) - JONATHAN MANTHORPEJanuary 17, 2014 Three years after the flight into exile of Tunisian President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali triggered popular uprisings across North Africa and the Middle East, there is little to show for the cost in blood and chaos. The results of the “Arab Spring” demands for reform are neatly summed up in
- [Afghans survey an unsavoury buffet of presidential candidates](https://canadianjournalist.ca/afghans-survey-an-unsavoury-buffet-of-presidential-candidate/) - JONATHAN MANTHORPEFebruary 5, 2014 In the coming weeks, the world is going to discover whether 13 years of war in Afghanistan at a cost of the lives of tens of thousands of local people, the deaths of 3,392 members of the international forces fighting the Taliban insurgents, and upwards of $4 trillion has all been
- [A small moment in the history of China and Taiwan](https://canadianjournalist.ca/a-small-moment-in-the-history-of-china-and-taiwan/) - JONATHAN MANTHORPEFebruary 12, 2014 This week’s meeting between officials from the Chinese and Taiwanese governments is historic, but more for its symbolism than any prospect of dramatic outcomes. For Beijing the hope is that after eight years of improving economic ties, the talks are the beginning of a political process that will see the island
- [Army attempts to mediate Thailand’s political crisis](https://canadianjournalist.ca/army-attempts-to-mediate-thailands-political-crisis/) - JONATHAN MANTHORPEMay 21, 2014 A day after declaring martial law, the first attempt by Thailand’s army to mediate an end to the country’s eight years of political turmoil ended inconclusively, with both major factions refusing to end their street protests. Hours after launching what has been called “a half coup,” Army Chief Gen. Prayuth Chan-ocha today chaired a
- [Al-Qaida Jihadists Suspicious of Iraq-Syria Caliphate](https://canadianjournalist.ca/al-qaida-jihadists-suspicious-of-iraq-syria-caliphate/) - JONATHAN MANTHORPE July 16, 2014 Half a dozen so-called Islamic states have been created out of countries in crisis in the last 20 years, and each new one is more brutal and bloodthirsty than the last. The latest is the “caliphate” created by the messianic descendant of the Prophet Mohammed, soldier and Islamic scholar Abu Bakr
- [Afghan unity deal ensures future conflict](https://canadianjournalist.ca/afghan-unity-deal-ensures-future-conflict/) - JONATHAN MANTHORPE September 24, 2014 As rival candidates for power in Afghanistan signed a power-sharing deal on Sunday, an understandable sigh of relief swept through the corridors of power in those countries that have expended troops and treasure in the last dozen years trying to get the central Asian nation on its feet. In the
- [45 years later, Ottawa fumbles national security](https://canadianjournalist.ca/45-years-later-ottawa-fumbles-national-security/) - JONATHAN MANTHORPE: International Affairs May, 2015 My first brush with terrorism was in Montreal late in the afternoon of Tuesday, April 21, 1964, when I was a first year student at McGill University. It was a bright, early spring day and a friend and I had gone for a rambling walk through the city. At about
- [America's gun cult, Switzerland's firearms culture](https://canadianjournalist.ca/americas-gun-cult-switzerlands-firearms-culture/) - JONATHAN MANTHORPE: International Affairs October 9, 2015 In the ranks of “barbaric cultural practices,” the United States’ addiction to firearms is among the most deadly. As of October 9th, 10,193 people had been killed by gunfire in the U.S. this year. That means the U.S. is on track to match or surpass last year’s death toll
- [Ahmed Chalabi: Death of a Salesman](https://canadianjournalist.ca/ahmed-chalabi-death-of-a-salesman/) - JONATHAN MANTHORPE: International Affairs November 6, 2015 Ahmed Chalabi is lucky he died this week. Had he lived even a few months longer he would have had to face yet more charges that he is personally responsible for the death and destruction that has wrenched the Middle East for nearly 15 years. It is already
- [African democratic reform falters and falls](https://canadianjournalist.ca/african-democratic-reform-falters-and-falls/) - JONATHAN MANTHORPE: International Affairs June 17, 2016 Two events in the last few days make it depressingly clear that after a few years of great political and social advances, Africa is slipping back into its bad old ways. On Thursday, the Mo Ibrahim Foundation announced that yet again there is no one worthy of receiving
- [After almost 25 years, a glimmer of light in the Somali tunnel](https://canadianjournalist.ca/after-almost-25-years-a-glimmer-of-light-in-the-somali-tunnel/) - The subject is Somalia, both as Jonathan experienced it and as it might be evolving today.
- [Canada PM distorts, inflates ISIS threat for electoral ends](https://canadianjournalist.ca/canada-pm-distorts-inflates-isis-threat-for-electoral-ends/) - JONATHAN MANTHORPE: International Affairs March 20, 2015 The decision by the Canadian government of Stephen Harper to extend and expand its military mission against ISIS in Iraq is in wilful disregard of the real threat posed by the radical Muslim group and how it can be overcome. I say “wilful” purposefully, because it is evident that
- [Cameron courts “heroic defeat” by European leaders](https://canadianjournalist.ca/cameron-courts-heroic-defeat-by-european-leaders/) - JONATHAN MANTHORPE June 27, 2014 The humiliating defeat of British Prime Minister David Cameron in the election for the European Union’s top bureaucrat is probably the best thing that could have happened to him. Cameron took a calculated risk in the fallout from May’s elections for members of the European Parliament, in which right wing anti-EU
- [Burma's Aung San Suu Kyi: The Image And The Reality](https://canadianjournalist.ca/burmas-aung-san-suu-kyi-the-image-and-the-reality/) - JONATHAN MANTHORPE: International Affairs April 9, 2016 It has come as a shock to Aung San Suu Kyi’s international groupies and fans that the Burmese freedom icon is not the ethereal Princess in the Tower of their imaginations. Instead of the pure visionary of a silken and untainted transition from nearly 60 years of military
- [Bush’s War on Terror Unending](https://canadianjournalist.ca/bushs-war-on-terror-unending/) - Fifteen years ago George W. Bush launched the "War on Terror." It was an incalculable strategic mistake, and there is no end in sight JONATHAN MANTHORPE: International Affairs September 24, 2016 Fifteen years ago this week President George W. Bush uttered a few phrases that have tainted much of what has happened in the world since. He made an incalculable strategic
- [Britain needs election to clear Brexit fog](https://canadianjournalist.ca/britain-needs-election-to-clear-brexit-fog/) - JONATHAN MANTHORPE: International Affairs November 4, 2016 At the heart of Britain’s Brexit drama is a fundamental problem of political legitimacy. None of the main players now in leading roles has any mandate to have their voices heard. This central void loomed large this week as Britain’s High Court ruled that Prime Minister Theresa May
- [BRICS turning to rubble](https://canadianjournalist.ca/brics-turning-to-rubble/) - JONATHAN MANTHORPE: International Affairs March 18, 2016 The leadership chaos in Brazil and South Africa is a timely reminder for emerging economies that unless they also press ahead with political, administrative, judicial and social reform they are doomed. The presidents of both Brazil and South Africa are clinging to office by their fingernails in the
- [Brexit will save the European project](https://canadianjournalist.ca/brexit-will-save-the-european-project/) - JONATHAN MANTHORPE: International Affairs July 8th, 2016 When the dust of history settles, the moment angry Britons voted to quit the European Union will stand out as the moment that saved the 28-nation project. Two weeks after the referendum produced a 52 per cent majority in favour of Brexit, the chaotic aftermath in British
- [Boko Haram heaps electoral bad luck on Goodluck Jonathan](https://canadianjournalist.ca/boko-haram-heaps-electoral-bad-luck-on-goodluck-jonathan/) - Regular contributor Jonathan Manthorpe's Feb. 20, 2015 column
- [Bodies of purged foes deck the halls in Beijing and Pyongyang](https://canadianjournalist.ca/bodies-of-purged-foes-deck-the-halls-in-beijing-and-pyongyang/) - JONATHAN MANTHORPEDecember 13, 2013 The milk of human kindness is not flowing through the corridors of power in Beijing or in Pyongyang. In the capitals of China and North Korea ‘tis the season to be merry, but only over the bodies of purged enemies and rivals. In Beijing the bodies are only figurative – so
- [Bin Laden’s disciples move to realize his dream](https://canadianjournalist.ca/bin-ladens-disciples-move-to-realize-his-dream/) - JONATHAN MANTHORPEJune 13, 2014. There has never been a satisfactory explanation why George W. Bush and his Praetorian Guard nursed such a visceral hatred of Saddam Hussein. But they came to power in 2000 intent on vendetta, and within hours of the September 2001 al-Qaida attacks on New York and Washington the closest officials and
- [Bergdahl a pawn in a bigger game](https://canadianjournalist.ca/bergdahl-a-pawn-in-a-bigger-game/) - JONATHAN MANTHORPEJune 6, 2014. How, then, to reconcile the relaxed body language of the Americans and Taliban at the handover of Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl a week ago, and a suicide bomb attack today on the election campaign convoy of Afghanistan’s likely next President, Abdullah Abdullah? The circumstances around the release of Bergdahl on May 31
- [Beijing, not Moscow, is the home of imperialism](https://canadianjournalist.ca/beijing-not-moscow-is-the-home-of-imperialism/) - JONATHAN MANTHORPEMarch 5, 2014 One has to wonder if American Secretary of State John Kerry, Canada’s Foreign Minister John Baird and all the preened diplomats of the European Union know a colonial, expansionist power when they see one. The sound and fury they have managed to aim at Russian President Vladimir Putin in the last
- [Beijing’s imperial ambitions run aground on legal reefs](https://canadianjournalist.ca/beijings-imperial-ambitions-run-aground-on-legal-reefs/) - JONATHAN MANTHORPE: International Affairs July 16, 2016 The ruling this week by the Permanent Court of Arbitration, that China’s claim to sovereignty over about 90 per cent of the South China Sea is invalid and unlawful, will have profound effects on the tenor and timbre of the growing power struggle in Asia. The 497-page decision
- [Beijing will outwait Hong Kong’s protesters](https://canadianjournalist.ca/beijing-will-outwait-hong-kongs-protesters/) - JONATHAN MANTHORPE October 1, 2014. Tens of thousands of Hongkongers took advantage of today’s Chinese national holiday to join students who have clogged the city’s streets for four days demanding Beijing deliver on its promise to give the territory democratic autonomy. But the numbers do not look large enough to prompt Beijing to rethink its
- [Beijing takes another major step to control the South China Sea](https://canadianjournalist.ca/beijing-takes-another-major-step-to-control-the-south-china-sea/) - JONATHAN MANTHORPE May 23, 2014 China’s project to slowly gobble up sovereignty over the South China Sea and, with money and threats to cow the 10 countries of Southeast Asia into subservience, has made dramatic advances. Beijing will be well pleased with the success of the latest strike in its campaign, which started with the moving
- [Beijing tests mettle of Taiwan's Iron Lady President](https://canadianjournalist.ca/why-china-is-bent-on-inflaming-taiwan-relations/) - JONATHAN MANTHORPE: International Affairs May 28, 2016 Since Tsai Ing-wen was elected president of Taiwan in January, the Chinese regime of Xi Jinping has done everything it can to inflame cross-strait relations by goading her into making an outraged response. Tsai, who was inaugurated President of the island nation of 23 million people on May
- [Beijing reneges on Hong Kong freedom guarantee](https://canadianjournalist.ca/beijing-reneges-on-hong-kong-freedom-guarantee/) - JONATHAN MANTHORPEJune 11, 2014 The Chinese government has confirmed what everyone has known for a long time: it was lying when it signed a treaty guaranteeing Hong Kong substantial autonomy, speedy progress to democracy and protection of the rule of law. Protesters took to the streets in Hong Kong today and burned copies of a
- [Class war returns, this time as a global issue](https://canadianjournalist.ca/class-war-returns-this-time-as-a-global-issue/) - JONATHAN MANTHORPE: International Affairs January 8, 2016 By the time 2016 is two weeks old, each one of Canada’s 100 best paid corporate chief executives will have pocketed more than three times as much as the average Canadian can expect to take home in the entire year. On average, Canada’s top 100 CEOs banked $8.96 million*
- [Co-opted judiciary sentences Malaysia's Anwar Ibrahim to 5 years](https://canadianjournalist.ca/co-opted-judiciary-sentences-malaysias-anwar-ibrahim-to-5-years/) - Not the Royal Navy, but Malaysia is the subject of this latest consideration of the role of sodomy in making life bearable and unbearable.
- [China’s Xi renews threat to invade Taiwan](https://canadianjournalist.ca/chinas-xi-renews-threat-to-invade-taiwan/) - JONATHAN MANTHORPEPublished: October 9, 2013 Xi Jinping is not the first modern Chinese leader to threaten the island nation of Taiwan with invasion if they do not soon agree to hand their sovereignty to the Beijing regime. Indeed, it has become a necessary ritual for Chinese leaders to establish their patriotic credentials by reiterating Beijing’s
- [Chinese airspace claims reminiscent of pre-WW I](https://canadianjournalist.ca/chinese-airspace-moves-reminiscent-of-pre-ww-i/) - By Jonathan Manthorpe November 27, 2013. With China’s imposition of an air defence identification zone over disputed territory in the East China Sea, the imminent arrival of 2014 is beginning to look disturbingly like the months leading up to 1914. In the early years of the 20th century, Germany saw that Britain had had to
- [China’s Xi launches his own Cultural Revolution](https://canadianjournalist.ca/chinas-xi-launches-his-own-cultural-revolution/) - JONATHAN MANTHORPE August 13, 2014 Xi Jinping is not content with being the most powerful leader of China since Mao Zedong. He also wants to play God. Xi’s ruling Communist Party announced last week it will write its own version of “Chinese Christian theology” to ensure adherents abide by the country’s party-imposed political culture. The attempt
- [China’s war for Asian domination going well](https://canadianjournalist.ca/chinas-war-for-asian-domination-going-well/) - JONATHAN MANTHORPE: International Affairs April 2, 2015 TOKYO, Japan -- China’s war to supplant the United States as the regional super power in the Far East and western Pacific is under full steam and gobbling up its objectives. Over the last 15 years, China has not only built a large and potentially effective navy, it has
- [China’s leader Xi Jinping moves to purge rivals](https://canadianjournalist.ca/chinas-leader-xi-jinping-moves-to-purge-rivals/) - JONATHAN MANTHORPE Published: September 3, 2013. There are strong indications that the much-touted anti-corruption drive by China's new leader Xi Jinping is also becoming a purge of his rivals and a route to embedding his own authority. There has been a series of announcements in the last few weeks of investigations into senior officials. A common
- [China set to gain from airspace dispute](https://canadianjournalist.ca/china-set-to-gain-from-airspace-dispute/) - JONATHAN MANTHORPENovember 29, 2013. Even though China’s unilateral declaration of control over airspace off its eastern shores has spurred an unusually united push-back by the United States and its Asian allies, Beijing will be well pleased with the result of its imperial foray. With one small move that is unlikely to generate a sustained counter-attack
- [China’s soil as poisonous as its air and water](https://canadianjournalist.ca/chinas-soil-as-poisonous-as-its-air-and-water/) - JONATHAN MANTHORPE: International Affairs December 19, 2015 I was wrong when I said in last week’s column there is little reliable information available about the extent of soil pollution in China. Well, half wrong. In my hunt for facts I foolishly neglected to turn to the work of Professor Elizabeth Economy, director for Asia studies at
- [China’s island building in defence of nuclear missile submarines](https://canadianjournalist.ca/chinas-island-building-in-defence-of-nuclear-missile-submarines/) - “China is clearly militarizing the South China Sea, and you’d have to believe in the flat Earth to think otherwise” -- Adm. Harry Harris JONATHAN MANTHORPE: International Affairs February 26, 2016 It has been a long and expensive quest, but Beijing has now found a way out of Washington’s straightjacket aimed at blocking China from becoming
- [China conscripts Blackwater chief for its march into Africa](https://canadianjournalist.ca/china-conscripts-blackwater-chief-for-its-march-into-africa/) - JONATHAN MANTHORPEJanuary 31, 2014 As the contest for influence in Asia between China and Japan spills over into a scramble for trade, resources and political support in Africa, Beijing has gathered into its camp one of the world’s most famous mercenaries. Erik Prince, the former United States Navy Seal who founded the controversial private security
- [China accepts tribute from its vassal, Zimbabwe’s Robert Mugabe](https://canadianjournalist.ca/china-accepts-tribute-from-its-vassal-zimbabwes-robert-mugabe/) - JONATHAN MANTHORPE August 27, 2014 The air in Beijing’s Great Hall of the People was heavy with the pungent smell of irony this week as China’s President Xi Jinping greeted his visiting Zimbabwean counterpart, Robert Mugabe, as an old comrade in the struggle against “imperialism, colonialism and hegemony.” For Mugabe had come to Beijing to give
- [China manufactures islands to back its sovereignty claims](https://canadianjournalist.ca/china-manufactures-islands-to-back-its-sovereignty-claims/) - JONATHAN MANTHORPE September 10, 2014 Not content with stealing other people’s territory, the Beijing government is now manufacturing islands to boost its insubstantial claim to ownership of the South China Sea. The Philippines government has released aerial photographs of Chinese dredgers and construction teams pulling up millions of tonnes of sand and rock from the ocean floor
- [China faces crippling water shortages and pollution](https://canadianjournalist.ca/china-faces-crippling-water-shortages-and-pollution/) - JONATHAN MANTHORPE: International Affairs October, 2015 China’s drive for wealth and power is stumbling and could collapse over the country’s lack of water and its gross mismanagement of the resources it does have. China’s 1.3 billion people make up 20 per cent of the world’s population, but the country contains only seven per cent of
- [Catholic confusion over the troublesome Pope](https://canadianjournalist.ca/catholic-confusion-over-the-troublesome-pope/) - JONATHAN MANTHORPE: International Affairs November 27, 2015 For faithful Catholics, the whole point of the Pope and the Vatican is that they should be pillars of certainty in a troubled and troubling world. But as Argentinian Jesuit Jorge Mario Bergoglio approaches the end of his third year as Pope Francis, the relationships between the Pontif
- [Canada's pipeline project runs through swamp of Malaysian politics](https://canadianjournalist.ca/canadas-pipeline-project-runs-through-swamp-of-malaysian-politics/) - JONATHAN MANTHORPE: International Affairs July 31, 2015 One of the first things British Columbia Finance Minister Michael de Jong’s cabinet colleagues need to know after his quick flip to Malaysia this week is how closely the fate of the Canadian province’s $40 billion natural gas pipeline deal is tied to the survival of Prime Minister
- [Canada’s Navy: Dying From Neglect](https://canadianjournalist.ca/canadas-navy-dying-from-neglect/) - JONATHAN MANTHORPE: International Affairs May 14, 2016 One highly desirable result of an isolationist Donald Trump presidency is that it would expose in short order the philosophical, economic, political and moral corruption that has been at the heart of Canadian defence policy since the year dot. Trump says he wants to jettison those allies who
- [Canadians and the Battle for Hong Kong](https://canadianjournalist.ca/canadians-and-the-battle-for-hong-kong/) - JONATHAN MANTHORPE: International Affairs November 11, 2016 On this day 75 years ago, 1,975 men, and two female nurses, of the Royal Rifles of Canada and the Winnipeg Grenadiers were steaming across the East China Sea in the New Zealand liner-turned-troop ship, SS Awatea. This small rough-hewn and makeshift expeditionary force was bound for the
- [Castro and Trudeau, Kindred Spirits](https://canadianjournalist.ca/castro-and-trudeau-kindred-spirits/) - JONATHAN MANTHORPE: International Affairs December 3, 2016 Pierre Trudeau and Fidel Castro were brothers under the skin. It is no wonder they became life-long friends, for each could see a reflection of himself in the other. That didn’t, however, stop Castro as Cuban president lying purposefully to Canadian prime minister Trudeau if he thought it politically
- [Europe carries blame for the Ukrainian violence](https://canadianjournalist.ca/europe-carries-blame-for-the-ukrainian-violence/) - JONATHAN MANTHORPEFebruary 21, 2014 European leaders should not congratulate themselves too heartily for mediating the compromise agreement that, with luck, will end the demonstrations and appalling violence on the streets of Ukraine’s capital Kiev and other major cities. It is, after all, sins of commission and omission by Brussels that have played a large part
- [Fear spreads in China of Uigher insurrection](https://canadianjournalist.ca/fear-spreads-in-china-of-uigher-insurrection/) - JONATHAN MANTHORPEMarch 14, 2014 The first thought in many minds when Malaysia Airways’ flight MH370 disappeared a week ago was that the plane had been bombed or hijacked by Uigher separatists from the Chinese-occupied Xinjiang region of Central Asia. It was a natural speculation. The disappearance of the plane came only days after eight Uighers
- [Fighting for possession of deck chairs on the Titanic](https://canadianjournalist.ca/fighting-for-possession-of-deck-chairs-on-the-titanic/) - JONATHAN MANTHORPE: International Affairs April 10, 2015 Perhaps I had spent a sheltered life, but the first time I recall hearing the phrase “global warming” was at the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) in October, 1987, at a conference centre in Vancouver. The speaker on that occasion was an unsavoury character named Maumoon Abdul Gayoom,
- [Europe faces a 1945 moment](https://canadianjournalist.ca/europe-faces-a-1945-moment/) - JONATHAN MANTHORPE: International Affairs August 28, 2015 Europe’s dysfunctional and divisive refugee policies have now collapsed entirely in the face of the onslaught of hundreds of thousands of asylum seekers from the Middle East and Africa. The latest visible expression of that collapse is Hungary calling out the army and rushing to build a massive
- [Familiarity with China breeds contempt in Hong Kong](https://canadianjournalist.ca/familiarity-with-china-breeds-contempt-in-hong-kong/) - JONATHAN MANTHORPE: International Affairs February 13, 2016 The only surprise in the Monday night clashes between Hong Kong police and demonstrators demanding self-rule is that it hasn’t happened before. Over 40 policemen were injured, and 24 people arrested in clashes in the working class district of Mong Kok as the city celebrated Chinese New Year.
- [Ethnic Cleansing Roils Burma’s Democracy Transition](https://canadianjournalist.ca/ethnic-cleansing-roils-burmas-democracy-transition/) - JONATHAN MANTHORPE: International Affairs November 26, 2016 Burma’s 50 million people languished under a most vile military dictatorship for 50 years, but that has not made them a tolerant and open-handed society. The country’s military is in the middle of a scorched earth operation against the one million minority Muslim Rohingya in Burma’s north-western Rakhine
- [Egypt's bleak prospects](https://canadianjournalist.ca/587-2/) - JONATHAN MANTHORPE Published: August 16, 2013. Transitions from tyranny to representative and accountable government are always uncertain and usually messy, but Egypt's torment in the undertow of the Arab Spring is a textbook example of failure. Hundreds of people have been killed in recent days by the army and police. Security forces unleashed overwhelming force against
- [Egypt's military promises talk, not guns, in Nile water dispute with Ethiopia](https://canadianjournalist.ca/egypts-military-promises-talk-not-guns-in-nile-water-dispute-with-ethiopia/) - JONATHAN MANTHORPEPublished: August 30, 2013 An unintended consequence of July’s coup by the Egyptian army is that it has averted a threatened war with Ethiopia, over control of the waters of the Nile River on which Egypt has depended since the dawn of civilisation. Relations between Cairo and Addis Ababa sank to an all-time low in
- [Eritrea: the failure of Africa’s most promising nation](https://canadianjournalist.ca/eritrea-the-failure-of-africas-most-promising-nation/) - JONATHAN MANTHORPEJune 20, 2014 Fellow Africa hand Remer Tyson and I were huddling behind the thickest wall we could find one bad morning in the Somali capital, Mogadishu, and, as one does as the bullets fly, we grew philosophical. “If Africa had any sense,” said Remer, correspondent for a major American newspaper group, “it would
- [Ebola's first casualty: Clear thinking](https://canadianjournalist.ca/ebolas-first-casualty-clear-thinking/) - JONATHAN MANTHORPE October 15, 2014 The email message that arrived in my office in Hong Kong throbbed with the near hysteria of the editor who wrote it. “Jonathan,” it said, “there’s an outbreak of the Black Death in India. Please get there ASAP and file.” I took another swig of morning coffee and composed a calming
- [Eritreans take perils of the Mediterranean over torment at home](https://canadianjournalist.ca/eritreans-take-perils-of-the-mediterranean-over-torment-at-home/) - JONATHAN MANTHORPE: International Affairs April 24, 2015 “If the world had any sense,” began my friend and fellow Africa correspondent Remer Tyson as we hunkered down behind a thick wall in Mogadishu to avoid the stray bullets whistling overhead in the early rounds of Somalia’s civil war. “If the world had any sense,” he continued,
- [Dual Citizenship no Guarantee of Protection](https://canadianjournalist.ca/dual-citizenship-no-guarantee-of-protection/) - JONATHAN MANTHORPEJune 25, 2014 It’s easy and entirely justifiable to let loose an outraged rant at the prison sentences handed down in Egypt to three Al Jazeera journalists, including Egyptian-Canadian Mohamed Fahmy, after a piece of judicial theatre so farcical it denigrates the name of kangaroo courts. But whether Fahmy, the acting bureau chief in
- [Earthquake postpones Nepal’s bright dawn](https://canadianjournalist.ca/earthquake-postpones-nepals-bright-dawn/) - JONATHAN MANTHORPE: International Affairs April 30, 2015 Mother Nature has devastated Nepal just as the country was beginning to dig itself out from two decades of havoc unleashed by tectonic rifts in its human society. The earthquake that struck a week ago has set back for at least a decade the early stages of Nepal’s climb
- [Cutting Syria's Gordian knot no simple feat](https://canadianjournalist.ca/cutting-syrias-gordian-knot-no-simple-feat/) - JONATHAN MANTHORPE Published: August 28, 2013 An American-led attack on military assets of the Syrian regime of Bashar Assad, in retaliation for a nerve gas attack on civilians last week, now appears inevitable. Only the timing is in doubt. But it is likely United States President Barack Obama will heed the request of United Nations
- [Crystal meth epidemic undermines North Korean regime](https://canadianjournalist.ca/crystal-meth-epidemic-undermines-north-korean-regime/) - JONATHAN MANTHORPEPublished: October 16, 2013 The hermit kingdom of North Korea is in the grip of an epidemic of addiction to the highly addictive and damaging drug methamphetamine, that the authoritarian regime of Kim Jong-un appears powerless to control. A new report by two South Korean academics, who interviewed recent defectors from the North, says that in some
- [Decision time looms for Hong Kong democratic reform](https://canadianjournalist.ca/decision-time-looms-for-hong-kong-democratic-reform/) - JONATHAN MANTHORPEApril 16, 2014 A crisis is fast approaching in the relations between Beijing and the people of Hong Kong, a relationship which has been on a downhill slide since the territory was returned to China in 1997. Within the next few months, Beijing is set to decide whether to keep to its promise made
- [Crumbling of the BRICs](https://canadianjournalist.ca/crumbling-of-the-brics/) - JONATHAN MANTHORPEApril 30, 2014 There is probably little hope that when Terence James “Jim” O’Neill heard the news on Tuesday he buried his head under a pillow and groaned with embarrassment. But perhaps he should have done. It was O’Neill, who as head of Goldman Sachs’ global economics research in 2001, coined the term BRICs,
- [Contest to succeed Zimbabwe’s Mugabe heats up](https://canadianjournalist.ca/contest-to-succeed-zimbabwes-mugabe-heats-up/) - JONATHAN MANTHORPEMay 2, 2014. It offers a glimpse into the dark recesses of Robert Mugabe’s soul that he has remained in power in Zimbabwe for over three decades by the masterful manipulation of his opponents' weaknesses. Some have been bought off. Others have had their gluttony for the trappings of power sated to the point
- [Common enemies draw Washington and Tehran closer](https://canadianjournalist.ca/common-enemies-draw-washington-and-tehran-closer/) - JONATHAN MANTHORPEJanuary 8, 2014 As al-Qaida-linked groups hijack the anti-government insurgencies in Syria, Iraq and elsewhere, Washington is finding itself making common cause with its old enemy, Iran, and exciting the anger of its traditional ally, Saudi Arabia. This tectonic shift in Middle Eastern alliances stems from two decisions made by the administration of President
- [International role uncertain for Rouhani's Iran](https://canadianjournalist.ca/international-role-uncertain-for-rouhanis-iran/) - JONATHAN MANTHORPE Published: August 23, 2013 By allowing the election to Iran's presidency of moderate Hassan Rouhani, the country's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has tacitly admitted his own past blunders and shown a desire for better relations with Washington and Europe. But although the prospects of dialogue with Tehran look better than they have for many
- [Iran opens the gate to a long and stony road](https://canadianjournalist.ca/iran-opens-the-gate-to-a-long-and-stony-road/) - JONATHAN MANTHORPEPublished September 27th, 2013. The 34 years of animosity that has marked relations between Iran and the United States took a new direction today when President Barack Obama had an apparently constructive telephone conversation with his new counterpart from Tehran, Hassan Rouhani. The exchange capped several days of progressively closer conversations between senior Iranian and
- [Iran’s “reformist” Rouhani faces hardliner backlash at home](https://canadianjournalist.ca/irans-reformist-rouhani-faces-hardliner-backlash-at-home/) - JONATHAN MANTHORPEFebruary 7, 2014 As Iran this week received $550 million from eased sanctions in return for curbing its nuclear program, it is evident that resistance is stiffening among hardliners in Tehran to rapprochement with the international community. At its core, this apprehension appears to be fear that any restrictions on Iran’s ability to make
- [In Iran, nuclear deal and social reform are intertwined](https://canadianjournalist.ca/in-iran-nuclear-deal-and-social-reform-are-intertwined/) - JONATHAN MANTHORPEApril 8, 2014 As talks resume in Vienna today for a deal to curb Iran’s nuclear program, it is increasingly apparent that only political and social reform will deliver the ultimate guarantee that Tehran does not build atomic weapons. And that outcome depends almost entirely on the skills of Iran’s new President Hassan Rouhani.
- [Indonesia’s White Knight stumbles at the first fence](https://canadianjournalist.ca/indonesias-white-knight-stumbles-at-the-first-fence/) - JONATHAN MANTHORPEApril 9, 2014 For months the political life of Indonesia has been throbbing with the expectation that the hugely popular mayor of Jakarta, Joko “Jokowi” Widodo, was all set to become the country’s saviour and President in July elections. But in the critical preliminary parliamentary elections today, enough people appear to have had second
- [Imran Khan: from sports hero to prophet of doom](https://canadianjournalist.ca/imran-khan-from-sports-hero-to-prophet-of-doom/) - JONATHAN MANTHORPE September 3, 2014 The occupation of the heart of Pakistan’s capital by thousands of demonstrators demanding the resignation of the government is not so much a political crisis as a sad, public flameout by the protest leader, former cricket hero and international playboy Imran Khan. For over two weeks up to 15,000 followers of
- [History still waits for the Fat Lady to sing](https://canadianjournalist.ca/history-still-waits-for-the-fat-lady-to-sing/) - JONATHAN MANTHORPE November 7, 2014. The world would be a different place if Francis Fukuyama had been right in the essay he wrote, shortly before the demolition of the Berlin Wall 25 years ago this weekend, arguing that the Soviet Union collapse was indeed “the end of history.” “What we may be witnessing,” wrote the Stanford
- [Hong Kong legislators reject reform package in farcical vote](https://canadianjournalist.ca/hong-kong-legislators-reject-reform-package-in-farcical-vote/) - JONATHAN MANTHORPE: International Affairs June 19, 2015 The campaign for and against democracy in Hong Kong has tottered on the edge of farce for some time and this week it tumbled over the edge. Thursday’s vote in the Hong Kong legislature on plans to allow direct election of the territory’s head of government in 2017, but
- [Hong Kong activists split over Tiananmen Square](https://canadianjournalist.ca/hong-kong-activists-split-over-tiananmen-square/) - For the first time, Hong Kong's Federation of Students, a coalition of student unions, will not take part in the Victoria Park demonstrations. Instead, it will help organize a number of events and demonstrations confronting democracy and even independence in Hong Kong’s future. JONATHAN MANTHORPE: International Affairs June 4, 2016. There will be many fewer people
- [In England’s Mean and Truculent Land](https://canadianjournalist.ca/in-englands-mean-and-truculent-land/) - JONATHAN MANTHORPE: International Affairs June 24, 2016 When I was born in 1944 my parents lived a few hundred yards from where George Vancouver grew up in Kings Lynn, on England’s North Sea coast where the thrills of the horizon and the world beckon. In moments of inexcusable hubris, I sometimes fantasize that Vancouver and
- [Hamas Leads Gaza Down a Dead-end Street](https://canadianjournalist.ca/hamas-leads-gaza-down-a-dead-end-street/) - JONATHAN MANTHORPE August 6, 2014 Not the least of the problems of finding any kind of solution to the plight of the Palestinians is that the Hamas zealots who control Gaza are incompetent terrorists and jihadis. Hamas' sole strategic objective, the purpose of its jihad, is to overrun Israel and drive its 6.1 million Jewish residents
- [Generals in mufti still control Burma](https://canadianjournalist.ca/generals-in-mufti-still-control-burma/) - JONATHAN MANTHORPE: International Affairs April 17, 2015 When, in 2011, Burma’s generals “hung up their uniforms” after nearly half a century of military rule and introduced an ersatz civilian democracy, no one in their right mind imagined the soldiers wouldn’t occasionally reach behind the closet door to polish their medals. But Burma’s generals are proving
- [Flight Out of Ethiopia](https://canadianjournalist.ca/flight-out-of-ethiopia/) - JONATHAN MANTHORPE: International Affairs May 8, 2015 This week’s riots by thousands of Ethiopian Jews in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv mark the latest episode in a drama that stretches back well over 3,000 years. The Ethiopians were protesting what they see as systemic racism by Israeli society against their community of about 130,000 people. The
- [Hardliners prepare to sink Iranian nuclear deal](https://canadianjournalist.ca/hardliners-prepare-to-sink-iranian-nuclear-deal/) - JONATHAN MANTHORPE: International Affairs July 10, 2015. With a deal on Iran’s nuclear program in the offing, hardline opponents in Washington and Tehran are sharpening their teeth and honing their claws to a razor’s edge. In both capitals, the deal -- nearly 20 years in the making -- faces being derailed by intransigent political ideologues with
- [Five years on, Arab Spring’s thirst for blood still unsated](https://canadianjournalist.ca/five-years-on-arab-springs-thirst-for-blood-still-unsated/) - JONATHAN MANTHORPE: International Affairs January 23, 2016 In an eerie reflection of the start of the Arab Spring five years ago, tens of thousands of Tunisians took to the streets on Friday demonstrating outrage at the death of a young man protesting his lack of a job. Authorities responded with a nighttime curfew after police stations
- [Ghosts Gather at Najib’s Feast](https://canadianjournalist.ca/ghosts-gather-at-najibs-feast/) - JONATHAN MANTHORPE: International Affairs February 5, 2016 For nearly a decade Malaysia’s Prime Minister Najib Razak’s control of the country’s government, its judiciary, and most of its media, has short circuited investigations into his involvement in murder, as well as bribery, theft and corruption on a mind-boggling scale. But in the last few days it has
- [Ghost of murdered mistress haunts Prime Minister of Malaysia](https://canadianjournalist.ca/ghost-of-murdered-mistress-haunts-prime-minister-of-malaysia/) - JONATHAN MANTHORPE: International Affairs January 16, 2015 Murdered Mongolian aspiring fashion model, translator and mistress to the mighty, Altantuya Shaariibuu, may yet get the last laugh. The men who murdered Altantuya in October, 2006, two police bodyguards to Malaysia’s prime minister, Najib Razak, who was then the defence minister, were acquitted on appeal in 2013 after
- [Murder of Mongolian fashion model dogs Malaysia’s Prime Minister](https://canadianjournalist.ca/murder-of-mongolian-fashion-model-dogs-malaysias-prime-minister-najib-razak/) - JONATHAN MANTHORPE Published September 4, 2013. The torrid and sordid saga around the death of a Mongolian fashion model continues to dog Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak, re-ignited by a court decision to quash the murder convictions of her killers, two of his bodyguards. A decision by Malaysia’s Appeal Court last week, to free
- [Many reasons to boycott Sri Lankan Commonwealth summit](https://canadianjournalist.ca/many-reasons-to-boycott-sri-lankan-commonwealth-summit/) - JONATHAN MANTHORPEPublished: October 18, 2013 Canada's Prime Minister, Stephen Harper, does not come across as a man who is much concerned whether or not he has allies for his political stands. However, Harper may not welcome India’s Prime Minister Manmohan Singh coming to stand shoulder to shoulder with him in boycotting the Commonwealth Heads of
- [Mrs. Clooney rushes to the rescue of Greek culture](https://canadianjournalist.ca/mrs-clooney-rushes-to-the-rescue-of-greek-culture/) - JONATHAN MANTHORPE November 12, 2014 It had been a tough day interviewing victims of Khmer Rouge atrocities, and it was with great relief that I slumped down in a chair in the hotel bar in the Cambodian capital, Phnom Penh, and ordered a beer. Through the window I could see the sun shimmering red as it
- [Money flight impoverishes the poorest countries](https://canadianjournalist.ca/money-flight-impoverishes-the-poorest-countries/) - JONATHAN MANTHORPE: International Affairs June 12, 2015. It’s not just China’s “Red Nobility” and Russian oligarchs who are robbing their countries by illicitly exporting their wealth to compliant and complicit countries like Canada. There is an epidemic of money flight from developing countries, according to a new report from the Washington-based anti-money laundering organization Global Financial
- [Namibia's Nazis -- This Week’s Other Birthday](https://canadianjournalist.ca/this-weeks-other-birthday/) - JONATHAN MANTHORPE: International Affairs April 23, 2016 Until quite recently, while Queen Elizabeth and her family were celebrating her birthday every April 21, a group of elderly men in south-west Africa were nursing the effects of the birthday toasts they had drunk the night before. The birthday these ageing men were celebrating was that of
- [Japan moves to unshackle its military as storm clouds gather over Asia](https://canadianjournalist.ca/japan-moves-to-unshackle-its-military-as-storm-clouds-gather-over-asia/) - JONATHAN MANTHORPEDecember 20, 2013 The Japanese and Indian navies are in the second of four days of joint exercises in the Bay of Bengal, an event which neatly demonstrates the gathering storm of military preparations rumbling over Asia. The exercise is small as these things go. It involves only two destroyers from the Japanese navy
- [Kenyan siege will increase U.S. military footprint in Africa](https://canadianjournalist.ca/kenyan-siege-will-increase-u-s-military-footprint-in-africa/) - JONATHAN MANTHORPEPublished September 25, 2013. One result of the siege of the Kenyan shopping mall occupied by Islamic militants will be to reinforce Washington’s determination to continue expanding its controversial military presence in Africa. The take-over of the up-market Westgate shopping centre in the Kenyan capital Nairobi, by fighters claiming to be from the al-Shabaab militant group
- [Japan deploys anti-ship missiles to China’s Pacific gateway](https://canadianjournalist.ca/japan-deploys-anti-ship-missiles-to-chinas-pacific-gateway/) - JONATHAN MANTHORPEPublished: November 8, 2013 Miyako Island, usually known as Japan’s best beach and snorkelling holiday destination, is now on the front line of the increasingly militarised confrontation with China as Tokyo orders the deployment of anti-ship missiles to the island. The deployment comes after weeks of aggressive naval and air force exercises by China,
- [Malaysia’s opposition leader Anwar again convicted after fake trial](https://canadianjournalist.ca/malaysias-opposition-leader-anwar-again-convicted-after-fake-trial/) - JONATHAN MANTHORPEMarch 7, 2014 Today’s conviction of Malaysia’s opposition leader, Anwar Ibrahim, for sodomy in a clearly politically motivated trial, may well backfire on the ruling Barisan Nasional coalition and bring its downfall in the next elections. A Court of Appeal in Kuala Lumpur today upheld an appeal by the state, overturned Anwar’s 2012 acquittal
- [Mandela’s heritage tainted by President Zuma’s graft](https://canadianjournalist.ca/mandelas-heritage-tainted-by-president-zumas-graft/) - JONATHAN MANTHORPEMarch 21, 2014 It was always foreseeable that after the death of Nelson Mandela the unlikely alliance of forces drawn together by opposition to apartheid in South Africa would unravel. Even before Mandela’s death early in December there was plenty of public disgust at the level of corruption and incompetence in the African National
- [Leave Ukraine to the Russians](https://canadianjournalist.ca/leave-ukraine-to-the-russians/) - JONATHAN MANTHORPEMarch 28, 2014 It may have slipped the memory of United States President Barack Obama, Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper, and the 28 European Union leaders, but 15 years ago it was decided that the G-8 club of the world’s leading economies was too elite a cabal to be of much practical use. So, with
- [Japan deals itself in to the Asian poker game](https://canadianjournalist.ca/japan-deals-itself-in-to-the-asian-poker-game/) - JONATHAN MANTHORPEMay 30, 2014 Japan this week launched a three-pronged response to China’s growing military and diplomatic shadow over Asia. In Singapore today, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe pledged his country’s “utmost support” for the countries of Southeast Asia that are locked in increasingly tense confrontations with China over Beijing’s claims to ownership of most
- [Local grievances fuel Kenyan massacres](https://canadianjournalist.ca/local-grievances-fuel-kenyan-massacres/) - JONATHAN MANTHORPEJune 18, 2014 It is logical, but far too easy, to blame the Somali-based militant Islamic group al-Shabaab for massacres in two Kenyan coastal communities on Sunday and Monday in which close to 100 people were killed. It’s logical because the attacks on the town of Mpeketoni and the nearby village of Majembeni fit
- [Libya finds its new Qaddafi](https://canadianjournalist.ca/libya-finds-its-new-qaddafi/) - JONATHAN MANTHORPE July 25, 2014 A renegade Libyan general, reputedly with links to Washington’s Central Intelligence Agency, is well on his way to filling the political vacuum left by the ouster and killing of dictator Muammar Qaddafi in 2011. Since late May, Khalifa Haftar has formed a loose alliance of elements of the national military and
- [Jilted Putin courts Kim Jong-un for comfort](https://canadianjournalist.ca/jilted-putin-courts-kim-jong-un-for-comfort/) - JONATHAN MANTHORPE July 30, 2014 The ripples set in motion by Russia’s annexation of Crimea and Moscow’s ever more blatant involvement in fighting in eastern Ukraine have reached the other side of the world, and are lapping on the shores of the hermit kingdom of North Korea. As the European Union and the United States impose
- [Lightning-strike diplomacy opens crack between the Koreas](https://canadianjournalist.ca/lightening-strike-diplomacy-opens-crack-between-the-koreas/) - JONATHAN MANTHORPE October 8, 2014 In a remarkable demonstration that may presage the end of one of the world’s most deeply embedded conflicts, three of North Korea’s most senior leaders have made a surprise visit to the South. The excuse for the unprecedented trip across the heavily-armed border that has divided the peninsular since the Second
- [Japanese Remorse: Once More With Feeling](https://canadianjournalist.ca/japanese-remorse-once-more-with-feeling/) - JONATHAN MANTHORPE: International Affairs August 14, 2015 Saturday, August 15, is the 70th anniversary of the end of the Second World War in the Pacific, and that anniversary pulls my memory back 50 years to 1965. I was an apprentice journalist on a weekly newspaper in the small English country town of Newmarket, in the country
- [Justin Trudeau inherits an international freeloader](https://canadianjournalist.ca/justin-trudeau-inherits-an-international-freeloader/) - JONATHAN MANTHORPE: International Affairs October, 2015 It was easy for prime minister designate Justin Trudeau to tell the world that Canada "is back" as an eager and reliable partner, but it will take a large and consistent investment in time, effort and money to make that come true. During his nine years in power Prime Minister Stephen Harper
- [Iranians close in on Aleppo, not Mecca](https://canadianjournalist.ca/iranians-close-in-on-aleppo-not-mecca/) - JONATHAN MANTHORPE: International Affairs September 10, 2016 There will be no Iranians this year among the two million Muslims who make the hajj pilgrimage to the holy sites at Mecca and Medina in Saudi Arabia that starts on Sunday, September 11. About 60,000 Iranians joined the pilgrimage last year, but now they are barred
- [Labour unrest surges as China's economy slows](https://canadianjournalist.ca/slower-economic-growth-in-china-doubled-work-stoppages-between-2013-and-14/) - JONATHAN MANTHORPE: International Affairs January 23, 2015 As China’s economy slows to a crawl, the Communist Party is facing one of its worst nightmares: a militant labour movement. The Hong Kong-based China Labour Bulletin, which collects data on strikes and lockouts in China as well as promoting workers’ rights, says there has been a dramatic
- [Putin supports Syria for fear of revolution spreading to Russia’s Muslims](https://canadianjournalist.ca/putin-supports-syria-for-fear-of-revolution-spreading-to-russias-muslims/) - JONATHAN MANTHORPEPublished: September 6, 2013 As Russian President Vladimir Putin told a press conference this morning in St. Petersburg that his support for Syria’s Assad regime is unshakeable, three Russian warships reinforced the message as they slipped through the Dardanelles bound for the eastern Mediterranean. Putin said he is unconvinced by the evidence produced by the United
- [Political upheaval looms in Taiwan](https://canadianjournalist.ca/political-upheaval-looms-in-taiwan/) - JONATHAN MANTHORPE Published: September 13, 2013. Political life in the island nation of Taiwan is facing uncertainty and looming chaos as President Ma Ying-jeou attempts to counter plummeting popularity and threats to his leadership of the ruling Kuomintang (KMT) party. There are persistent reports in Taiwan that KMT factions are preparing to remove Ma
- [Putin more in tune with the times than Obama](https://canadianjournalist.ca/putin-more-in-tune-with-the-times-than-obama/) - JONATHAN MANTHORPEMarch 12, 2014 One of the more unfortunate pronouncements by United States President Barack Obama in this Ukraine embroglio was that his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, had put himself “on the wrong side of history.” Obama was not explicit, but his case appears to be that by intervening in the majority ethnic Russian eastern
- [Putin’s other hand hovers over Moldova](https://canadianjournalist.ca/putins-other-hand-hovers-over-moldova/) - JONATHAN MANTHORPEApril 25, 2014 As the West fixates on what Vladimir Putin is doing in eastern Ukraine, perhaps not enough attention is being paid to his other hand, which is hovering greedily over neighbouring Moldova. Moldova and its three-and-a-half million people, sandwiched between Romania and Ukraine behind the north-west shore of the Black Sea, has
- [Reform Agenda of Thailand’s Junta Destined to Fail](https://canadianjournalist.ca/reform-agenda-of-thailands-junta-destined-to-fail/) - JONATHAN MANTHORPE July 2, 2014. Thailand’s military regime appears intent on purging the country of all traces of former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra and his family, and preventing a come-back by the man who has dominated national politics for 15 years. But the course that army chief Gen. Prayuth Chan-ocha and his junta are taking is
- [Portugal’s Foodie Empire](https://canadianjournalist.ca/portugals-foodie-empire/) - JONATHAN MANTHORPEJuly 9, 2014 Quite rightly, the wall-to-wall media coverage of every aspect of Brazilian life that has accompanied the global fixation on the football World Cup has paid little attention to the country’s history as a Portuguese colony. Quite rightly because Portugal’s empire in the Americas, Africa and Asia was perhaps the least memorable
- [One man’s thrust for survival in Mugabe’s Zimbabwe](https://canadianjournalist.ca/one-mans-thrust-for-survival-in-mugabes-zimbabwe/) - JONATHAN MANTHORPE November 26, 2014 In last week’s column I wrote about the Borgia world of Zimbabwe’s First Lady, Grace Mugabe. That column should be read in tandem with this offering, which is about the skill, imagination, talent, determination and sheer hard work that ordinary Africans have to employ to survive and succeed. It was
- [Oil slump devastates Venezuela](https://canadianjournalist.ca/oil-slump-devastates-venezuela/) - JONATHAN MANTHORPE: International Affairs March 5, 2016 Venezuela’s grey and featureless President, Nicolas Maduro, the default successor to that preening, strutting rooster Hugo Chavez, is set to become the first head of government felled by tumbling oil prices. It’s just a matter of who gets their boot lined up first to kick him out the door.
- [Party dissent in China as time for a new mandate for Xi nears](https://canadianjournalist.ca/party-dissent-in-china-as-time-for-a-new-mandate-for-xi-nears/) - JONATHAN MANTHORPE: International Affairs March 26, 2016 China’s leader Xi Jinping is facing serious criticism from within the ruling Communist Party as the time approaches when he must be reconfirmed as party boss and the country’s president. Since being selected by the party at the end of 2012 for China’s two top posts, Xi has
- [Pakistan’s long road to the Lahore bombing](https://canadianjournalist.ca/pakistans-long-road-to-the-lahore-bombing/) - The Easter Sunday suicide bombing in Lahore is a gruesome metaphor for the religious madness that has consumed Pakistan JONATHAN MANTHORPE: International Affairs April 2, 2016 The Easter Sunday suicide bombing in Lahore, which was aimed at Christians but killed and maimed mostly Muslims, is a gruesome metaphor for the religious madness that has
- [Putin, Grand Master of the Great Game, awaits next opponent](https://canadianjournalist.ca/putin-grand-master-of-the-great-game-awaits-next-opponent/) - JONATHAN MANTHORPE: International Affairs October 1, 2016 When the new United States president moves into the Oval Office early next year, at the top of her foreign policy priorities will be what to do about Vladimir Putin. Forget the various manifestations of Islamic extremism. Their outrages may be dramatic, but they are, when all is
- [Nelson Mandela's goodness harmed his leadership](https://canadianjournalist.ca/nelson-mandelas-goodness-harmed-his-leadership/) - JONATHAN MANTHORPEDecember 6, 2013. Nelson Mandela was too good for his or South Africa’s own good. Those qualities of tolerance, forgiveness, respect for the others’ views, and uncritical loyalty to friends, comrades and family that made him one of the most saintly public figures of the last century, also framed his less than stellar performance
- [New rift among Arab states adds to Middle East security threat](https://canadianjournalist.ca/new-rift-among-arab-states-adds-to-middle-east-security-threat/) - JONATHAN MANTHORPEMarch 26, 2014 A bitter feud among Arab states over relations with radical Islamic groups and how to confront regional rival Iran is threatening to bring new volatility to the already raging insecurity in the Middle East. The feud pits the oil-rich emirate of Qatar against Saudi Arabia, the other Gulf States of the
- [North Korea’s Kim renews his quest for a nuclear life-saver](https://canadianjournalist.ca/north-koreas-kim-renews-his-quest-for-a-nuclear-life-saver/) - JONATHAN MANTHORPEMay 7, 2014 If North Korea’s young and unpredictable leader Kim Jong-un nursed any doubts about his need for nuclear weapons, recent events in Ukraine and Syria will have dismissed them. With American and other spy satellites showing that North Korea is preparing new tests of a nuclear bomb and an inter-continental ballistic missile,
- [Nation of Kurdistan springs from Arab chaos](https://canadianjournalist.ca/nation-of-kurdistan-springs-from-arab-chaos/) - JONATHAN MANTHORPEJuly 4, 2014 The question is not whether there will be an independent Kurdistan. It’s been lurking in the underbrush since 1991. The question is how big the country will get. The 40 million Kurds are the world’s most numerous distinct people without a country of their own. Their homeland is partitioned among Turkey,
- [North Korea’s Kim glories in his reign of terror](https://canadianjournalist.ca/north-koreas-kim-glories-in-his-reign-of-terror/) - JONATHAN MANTHORPE: International Affairs May 15, 2015 One of the best arguments today for the use of judicious political assassination is the existence of Kim Jong-un. There is now abundant evidence that the young North Korean leader is a mad dog. The world would be a safer place without his murderous and megalomaniac finger hovering over
- [Nothing is simple about Canada's support for Kurdish fighters](https://canadianjournalist.ca/nothing-is-simple-about-canadas-support-for-kurdish-fighters/) - JONATHAN MANTHORPE: International Affairs February 18, 2016 There is a generation of British soldiers, civil servants and planters, now mostly dead, who swear bloodcurdling oaths at the mention of the name of Canada. They were posted to the then-British colony of Malaya after the Second World War, and they blame Canada for training and arming
- [North Korea’s Kim rattles the bars of his cage](https://canadianjournalist.ca/north-koreas-kim-rattles-the-bars-of-his-cage/) - JONATHAN MANTHORPE: International Affairs May 7, 2016 A good rule of thumb is to always be deeply suspicious of optimistic projections for the future of North Korea. There have been some rose-tinted forecasts wafting from Pyongyang this week as the Workers’ Party of Korea holds its first congress since 1980. The congress was called to
- [Student occupation of parliament stalls Taiwan-China rapprochement](https://canadianjournalist.ca/student-occupation-of-parliament-stalls-taiwan-china-rapprochement/) - JONATHAN MANTHORPEApril 4, 2014 It was only a matter of time before the efforts by Taiwan’s President Ma Ying-jeou to improve relations with Beijing came up against the brutal truth that the vast majority of the island’s 23 million people do not want to be part of China. Many Taiwanese have watched with increasing unease
- [Soccer bribery is the least of Qatar’s sins](https://canadianjournalist.ca/soccer-bribery-is-the-least-of-qatars-sins/) - JONATHAN MANTHORPEJune 4, 2014. From being the poster boy for a modernizing Middle East, the filthy rich Gulf state of Qatar has become a menace. Next month the governing body of international soccer, FIFA, will receive a stack of evidence that Qatar splurged $5 million in bribes and other inducements to win the contest for
- [Spy scandal confirms Germans’ growing mistrust of Washington](https://canadianjournalist.ca/spy-scandal-confirms-germans-growing-mistrust-of-washington/) - JONATHAN MANTHORPE July 11, 2014 The name “Intelligence Agency” often seems to be an oxymoron because spies frequently do incredibly dumb things. But before labelling the entire profession a collection of buffoons, it’s as well to remember that most intelligence agency work is divided into two main, distinct areas. There is the gathering of information through
- [Small Stampede for the Brexit](https://canadianjournalist.ca/small-stampede-for-the-brexit/) - JONATHAN MANTHORPE: International Affairs June 11, 2016 It is unlikely that Britons are going to give a conclusive answer to the question whether they should remain in the European Union or leave it when they mark their referendum ballots on June 23. Recent polls show “Leave” supporters marginally ahead of those wanting to stay. The
- [South African politics see tectonic shift](https://canadianjournalist.ca/south-african-politics-see-tectonic-shift/) - JONATHAN MANTHORPE: International Affairs August 6, 2016 South African voters have delivered the most stinging rebuke to the party of Nelson Mandela since it led the country out of apartheid a quarter century ago. The messianic reputation of the African National Congress (ANC) as the party that for decades battled institutionalised racial segregation and then
- [Should Trump win, Canada will benefit from fourth wave of US refugees](https://canadianjournalist.ca/should-trump-win-canada-will-benefit-from-fourth-wave-of-us-refugees/) - JONATHAN MANTHORPE: International Affairs September 17, 2016 There are a few reasons why Canadians might welcome the prospect of Donald Trump winning the United States presidency, among them that it may set off the fourth wave of refugees seeking sanctuary in this country from political persecution and upheaval at home. By and large, Canada has
- [Renewed civil war looms in South Sudan](https://canadianjournalist.ca/renewed-civil-war-looms-in-south-sudan/) - JONATHAN MANTHORPEDecember 18, 2013. The sickening smell of unfulfilled vengeance hangs over the fighting that broke out among rival clans in the capital of Africa’s newest nation, South Sudan, on Sunday and there is an awful predictability about where it will lead. At least 500 people have been killed so far and there was a
- [Saudi Arabia scornful of Obama’s Middle East policy](https://canadianjournalist.ca/saudi-arabia-scornful-of-obamas-middle-east-policy/) - JONATHAN MANTHORPEPublished: September 11, 2013. Saudi Arabia is increasingly disenchanted with the Middle East policy of United States President Barak Obama's administration, which Riyadh sees as inept and fostering discord rather than security. The unprecedented rift between Riyadh and Washington is coming to a head over Syria. Saudi Arabia is a major supporter, with money and arms,
- [Saudi Arabia sacks troublesome intelligence chief Prince Bandar](https://canadianjournalist.ca/saudi-arabia-sacks-troublesome-intelligence-chief-prince-bandar/) - JONATHAN MANTHORPEApril 18, 2014 The sacking of Saudi Arabia’s intelligence chief, Prince Bandar bin Sultan, is public acknowledgement that the strategy for ousting Syrian President Bashar Assad has not only failed, but spawned a new generation of skilled Islamic terrorists. The departure of Prince Bandar on Wednesday was announced in a brief statement from the
- [Scottish leader downplays difficulties of independence](https://canadianjournalist.ca/scottish-leader-downplays-difficulties-of-independence/) - JONATHAN MANTHORPEApril 23, 2014 Scotland’s First Minister and Nationalist Party leader Alex Salmond is generally reckoned to be the canniest politician in the British Isles. So it was entirely in keeping that he chose today, the day when the English patron saint St. George is celebrated, to cross the border to the northern English city
- [Renewed fears of Thai military coup as political chaos grows](https://canadianjournalist.ca/renewed-fears-of-thai-military-coup-as-political-chaos-grows/) - JONATHAN MANTHORPEMay 14, 2014 Thailand’s military leaders are clear that they don’t want to launch another coup, but the growing intensity of the political chaos may give them little choice. Last week’s ouster of Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra by the Constitutional Court for abuse of power has left dangerous uncertainty about which political leader, if
- [Revolt against Brussels rattles European leaders](https://canadianjournalist.ca/revolt-against-brussels-rattles-european-leaders/) - JONATHAN MANTHORPE May 28, 2014 There is no comfort for Europe’s band of supporters of a bigger and more powerful political union that their side won nearly 64 per cent of the vote in last weekend’s election. That victory cannot override the reality that parties that want to either radically reform or abandon the 28-member European
- [Religion-inspired violence not just a Muslim problem](https://canadianjournalist.ca/religion-inspired-violence-not-just-a-muslim-problem/) - JONATHAN MANTHORPE July 18, 2014 It is not just fanatical believers in an intolerant, violent, evangelical and racist brand of Islam that are spreading a shameful stain on the pages of human history in the 21st century. All major religions have in recent decades spawned similar factions of puritanical hatred that are distorting and perverting the
- [Saudi Arabia threatens to run amok](https://canadianjournalist.ca/saudi-arabia-threatens-to-run-amok/) - JONATHAN MANTHORPE: International Affairs June 26, 2015 After more than half a century as one of the few pillars of stability in the Middle East, Saudi Arabia is rapidly morphing into a dangerous and unpredictable rogue elephant. The transformation has accelerated since, six months ago this week, King Salman took the throne on the death of
- [Refugees are now the biggest crisis facing the European Union](https://canadianjournalist.ca/refugees-are-now-the-biggest-crisis-facing-the-european-union/) - JONATHAN MANTHORPE: International Affairs August 20, 2015 Among the many compelling pictures in recent weeks of would-be refugees swarming across the Mediterranean one from the Greek island of Lesbos caught my attention in particular. It was a short video of an infuriated Greek woman confronting a milling throng of young and apparently fit and healthy
- [Russia and Turkey eye each other with guns drawn](https://canadianjournalist.ca/russia-and-turkey-eye-each-other-with-guns-drawn/) - JONATHAN MANTHORPE: International Affairs March 12, 2016 Of the many disaster scenarios that could spring from the civil war in Syria, the prospect of war between Russia and Turkey is by far the most troubling. Turkey and Russia are old enemies, but Moscow’s intervention eight months ago in the Syrian civil war on behalf of embattled
- [Saudi Arabia succession struggle looms as king ails](https://canadianjournalist.ca/with-elderly-king-in-hospital-succession-struggle-in-saudi-arabia-probably-imminent/) - The king in hospital, regular contributor Jonathan Manthorpe reports on the imminence of a succession struggle in Saudia Arabia.
- [The Trial of Bo Xilai](https://canadianjournalist.ca/jonathan-manthorpe/) - JONATHAN MANTHORPE Published: August 14, 2013 Bo Xilai was mayor of China’s north-eastern city Dalian when I first met him in the early 1990s, and I remember thinking he was the first senior Communist Party official I had encountered who could win a western-style free and fair election. But Bo’s populist talents flipped
- [Thaw in U.S.-Iran relationship isolates Israel](https://canadianjournalist.ca/thaw-in-u-s-iran-relationship-isolates-israel/) - JONATHAN MANTHORPEPublished: October 4, 2013 The charm offensive at the United Nations General Assembly by Iran’s new President has isolated Israel and left the government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu with few options against Tehran’s nuclear threat. Israel has scant ability to scupper looming negotiations with Tehran over its nuclear program, or to steer the
- [Tokyo moves to boost military in response to Chinese “provocations”](https://canadianjournalist.ca/1549-2/) - JONATHAN MANTHORPE Published: September 18, 2013. Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is moving to loosen constitutional restrictions on the use of the country's armed forces, in response to increasing military pressure from China over disputed islands in the East China Sea. On Wednesday Abe asked a legal committee to report by the end of the year
- [The Nightmare of Mandela’s Dream in South Africa](https://canadianjournalist.ca/the-nightmare-of-mandelas-dream-in-south-africa/) - JONATHAN MANTHORPEDecember 11, 2013 Nelson Mandela has been praised to the rafters for promoting peace and reconciliation in post-apartheid South Africa, but on the ground there is precious little evidence his message has been heard or followed. The dawning of South Africa as a “rainbow nation” that was constantly touted after the end of apartheid
- [The real weapon of mass destruction](https://canadianjournalist.ca/the-real-weapon-of-mass-destruction/) - JONATHAN MANTHORPEJanuary 15, 2014 Somewhere in the corner of one of the drawers in my desk is a bag containing bullets and cartridge cases I picked up on various battlefields in Africa. For some I have special affection because they were fired at me and missed. But most are just the litter from civil wars
- [The Rise of “Gucci Grace,” Zimbabwe’s “First Shopper”](https://canadianjournalist.ca/the-rise-of-gucci-grace-zimbabwes-first-shopper/) - JONATHAN MANTHORPE November 19, 2014 Sally Mugabe was much loved in Zimbabwe and many believed, with some justice, that it was only her steadying hand that stopped her husband, President Robert Mugabe, from becoming the feral tyrant that emerged after her death. In the months before her death in January, 1992, it was widely
- [The Greek tragedy: a drama with many villains and no heroes](https://canadianjournalist.ca/the-greek-tragedy-a-drama-with-many-villains-and-no-heroes/) - JONATHAN MANTHORPE: International Affairs July 3, 2015. There is no shortage of villains in this Greek tragedy. Indeed, what is really challenging is to point to someone in Greece or anyone who has inhabited the upper echelons of the European Union in the last 30 years whose hands are clean. From the dangerously fanatic, Escher-inspired architects
- [The Islamic State is a mere shadow of the Assassins’ Caliphate](https://canadianjournalist.ca/the-islamic-state-is-a-mere-shadow-of-the-assassins-caliphate/) - JONATHAN MANTHORPE: International Affairs January 29, 2016 The psychopaths of the Islamic State are not the first murderers to try to create a Muslim theocracy – a Caliphate – in Syria and what is now Iraq. But unlike their predecessors nearly a thousand years ago, the Islamic State and its leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, are rank
- [The Trump virus goes global](https://canadianjournalist.ca/the-trump-virus-goes-global/) - Why are so many voters in a blind rage with government and politicians? JONATHAN MANTHORPE: International Affairs April 29, 2016 Trumpery – the political disease that is convulsing the United States – appears to be mutating into a world-wide epidemic. Donald Trump is drinking from a deep well of public disgust for traditional politicians in
- [The Boris Show heads for prime time](https://canadianjournalist.ca/the-boris-show-heads-for-prime-time/) - JONATHAN MANTHORPEDecember 12, 2014 Boris Johnson, the Mayor of London who unashamedly lusts to be Tory Prime Minister of Britain, clearly relishes his role as a source of public entertainment. In his nearly two decades in the public eye, Johnson has made buffoonery a high political art form. And public delight at his verbal indiscretions,
- [Thailand’s Senate attempts to quell unrest](https://canadianjournalist.ca/thailands-senate-attempts-to-quell-unrest/) - JONATHAN MANTHORPEPublished: November 6, 2013 No end is in sight to the torrid and bloody turmoil that has engulfed Thailand’s public life for almost a decade, as the country’s senate prepares to reject an amnesty law that would allow ousted prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra to return from exile. Since it was elected in 2011 the
- [Thai military poised as country approaches political deadlock](https://canadianjournalist.ca/thai-military-poised-as-country-approaches-political-deadlock/) - JONATHAN MANTHORPEJanuary 10, 2014 Thailand is awash with rumours of a looming military coup as opposition activists aim to shut down the capital, Bangkok, on Monday, in their campaign to oust the government of Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra. All the signs are, however, that the military is reluctant to intervene unless the police lose control
- [Thailand’s PM Yingluck faces judicial as well as military coup](https://canadianjournalist.ca/thailands-pm-yingluck-faces-judicial-as-well-as-military-coup/) - JONATHAN MANTHORPEJanuary 24, 2014 Not only Thailand’s generals, but also its judges, are manoeuvring to oust beleaguered Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra from government. The Constitutional Court today provided a legal opening to postpone an election set for February 2, which Yingluck called to reaffirm her mandate after months of anti-government demonstrations, and which she would
- [Taiwan’s People Power protest is Beijing's Crimea moment](https://canadianjournalist.ca/taiwans-people-power-protest-is-beijings-crimea-moment/) - JONATHAN MANTHORPEMarch 19, 2014 In the heat of the moment, the hundreds of students who have occupied Taiwan’s parliament in defence of their country’s independence are probably not wondering how their actions will be viewed in Western capitals. But perhaps they should. Washington, Brussels and like-minded governments that profess to be driven by democratic impulses
- [Suicide Bombing: history's least successful military tactic](https://canadianjournalist.ca/suicide-bombing-historys-least-successful-military-tactic/) - JONATHAN MANTHORPE: International Affairs November 20, 2015 It is cold comfort, certainly, with the horrors of Paris and Beirut still fresh, but the terrorist tactics adopted by the Islamic State show clearly the group is heading down a path of political irrelevance and self-destruction. The adoption by Islamic State (IS) of suicide attacks as its
- [Taiwan set to complete the transition to democracy](https://canadianjournalist.ca/taiwan-set-to-complete-the-transition-to-democracy/) - JONATHAN MANTHORPE: International Affairs January 16, 2016 (Updated) Taiwan has surged over the hump of its 35-year voyage from a military-ruled, one-party state to one of the most successful and vibrant democracies in Asia. Tsai Ing-wen, 59, leader of the opposition Democratic Progressive Party, and a highly skilled and experienced politician and diplomat, won a solid
- [With their dying breath, Mozambique’s rebels lash out](https://canadianjournalist.ca/with-their-dying-breath-mozambiques-rebels-lash-out/) - JONATHAN MANTHORPEPublished: October 25, 2013 Threats of a return to one of Africa’s most brutal civil wars came to a head this week when government troops in Mozambique overran the mountain forest base of opposition Renamo rebels. Afonso Dhlakama, 60-year-old leader of Renamo, the Mozambican National Resistance Movement, escaped with several hundred of his followers
- [Xi's growing personal power worries China's elder leaders](https://canadianjournalist.ca/xis-growing-personal-power-worries-chinas-elder-leaders/) - JONATHAN MANTHORPEApril 2, 2014 In authoritarian states there is always a fine line between campaigns against social cancers such as corruption, disposing of political rivals in the process, and riding the upheaval to unchallenged personal power. In China the anti-corruption drive of President and Communist Party leader Xi Jinping is now well on the way
- [Zimbabwe Collapse looms over Mugabe succession](https://canadianjournalist.ca/zimbabwe-collapse-looms-over-mugabe-succession/) - JONATHAN MANTHORPE: International Affairs July 23, 2016 The natural span of life is approaching its end for 92-year-old Robert Mugabe, Zimbabwe’s leader since 1980, but the infighting over the succession is so intense that no one is running the shop, and there may be nothing much left to inherit when the time comes. Mugabe has
- [Washington, courts defy Beijing imperialism](https://canadianjournalist.ca/washington-courts-defy-beijing-imperialism/) - JONATHAN MANTHORPE: International Affairs October, 2015 At long last, the Beijing regime has this week been dealt two significant set-backs to what is the world’s most extraordinary contemporary campaign of imperial expansionism. On October 29, a tribunal under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) decided that Beijing’s claim to own
- [Washington and Tehran find common cause against Islamic State zealots](https://canadianjournalist.ca/washington-and-tehran-find-common-cause-against-islamic-state-zealots/) - JONATHAN MANTHORPE August 21, 2014 It’s always a bit of a shock when the stern clerics that run Iran display an impish sense of humour. So when Iran’s Foreign Minister, Javad Zarif, was quoted today as offering to help the West’s campaign against the Islamic State militants in Syria and Iraq in return for the lifting
- [Venezuelan opposition fractures over ballots or bullets to win power](https://canadianjournalist.ca/venezuelan-opposition-fractures-over-ballots-or-bullets-to-win-power/) - JONATHAN MANTHORPEFebruary 14, 2014 When Venezuela’s President Hugo Chavez died last March there were some hopes the end of his strutting, belligerent and goading influence would calm the country’s violently polarised politics. No such luck. This week Chavez’ replacement as President and leader of the ruling United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV), Nicolas Maduro, is
- [War on Islamic State caliphate boosts the birth of Kurdistan](https://canadianjournalist.ca/war-on-islamic-state-caliphate-boosts-the-birth-of-kurdistan/) - JONATHAN MANTHORPE October 31, 2014 Before going to war it is always a good idea to have a clear purpose and outcome in mind. Yet six Royal Canadian Airforce CF-18s are set for bombing missions in the Middle East without any clear vision of what victory will look like. The whole thing is depressingly reminiscent
- [Vancouver’s housing bubble inflated by China’s air pollution](https://canadianjournalist.ca/vancouvers-housing-bubble-inflated-by-chinas-air-pollution/) - JONATHAN MANTHORPE: International Affairs December 11, 2015 Vancouver’s grossly inflated housing market, the United Nations’ climate conference in Paris and China’s catastrophic environmental degradation were all linked this week in a circle of cause and effect. On Tuesday the authorities in Beijing declared air pollution in the Chinese capital to be “hazardous to human health,”
- [Venezuela's drawn-out agony nears crisis](https://canadianjournalist.ca/venezuelas-drawn-out-agony-nears-crisis/) - JONATHAN MANTHORPE: International Affairs May 21, 2016 This weekend's largest military exercises ever by Venezuela may reveal whether the country is heading merely for an accelerated political and economic melt-down, or a full-blown civil war. Besieged President Nicolas Maduro authorised the demonstration of military might as public clamour mounts for a referendum to depose him. Nearly two
- [Uzbekisatan’s dictator destroys his “princess” daughter](https://canadianjournalist.ca/uzbekisatans-dictator-destroys-his-princess-daughter/) - JONATHAN MANTHORPE September 17, 2014 Supermarket tabloid divas like the Kardashians and Miley Cyrus are rank amateurs in the league tables of manic self-obsessives and insatiable exhibitionists of their own excruciating bad taste when stacked up against the gold standards set by Gulnara Karimova. Mind you, Karimova, 41, who immodestly but truthfully describes herself as a
- [Vancouver: not mind-numbingly boring, but vacuously vain](https://canadianjournalist.ca/vancouver-not-mind-numbingly-boring-but-vacuously-vain/) - The flood of money from China into Canada has not only contorted and distorted the Vancouver housing market beyond redemption, it has changed the sort of community Vancouver is going to be for generations to come, writes Jonathan Manthorpe. And, in a bizarre piece of absence of mind and lack of attention, it has hitched
- [Typhoon Haiyan launches Philippines presidential campaign](https://canadianjournalist.ca/typhoon-haiyan-launches-philippines-presidential-campaign-2/) - By Jonathan Manthorpe November 22, 2013. When aid arrived this week in the Philippines’ Capiz region devastated by typhoon Haiyan, some of it came in tasteful blue bags decorated in prominent white letters with the name of Vice-President Jejomar Binay and adorned with his official logo of office. Social media in the Philippines went viral
- [Turkey’s Prime Minister Erdogan fights for political survival](https://canadianjournalist.ca/turkeys-prime-minister-erdogan-fights-for-political-survival/) - JONATHAN MANTHORPEDecember 27, 2013 Turkey’s bullish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan is locked in a struggle for political survival with a United States-based Muslim cleric, whose followers he helped infiltrate the country’s police, courts, the military, and even his own Justice and Development Party. Erdogan lost another round today in his increasingly frantic contest with the
- [Turkey’s Erdogan seeks military support after falling out with Islamists](https://canadianjournalist.ca/turkeys-erdogan-seeks-military-support-after-falling-out-with-islamists/) - JONATHAN MANTHORPEJanuary 3, 2014 Turkey’s Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan has spent a decade trying to curb the political power of the country’s military, but now there are early indications he wants the support of the generals as he confronts the more serious threat of vengeance by his former Islamist allies. Erdogan is turning to the
- [UN report says China is complicit in North Korean atrocities](https://canadianjournalist.ca/un-report-says-china-is-complicit-in-north-korean-atrocities/) - JONATHAN MANTHORPEFebruary 19, 2014 By emphasizing China’s complicity in the unparalleled atrocities by the North Korean regime of its people, United Nations investigators have doubtless ensured Beijing will use its Security Council veto to block further action. Beijing has reacted angrily to the commission’s findings and recommendations, which are highly critical of China’s treatment
- [Uneasy lies the head that wears the Crown](https://canadianjournalist.ca/uneasy-lies-the-head-that-wears-the-crown/) - Behind these palace walls, writes Jonathan Manthorpe, lies political intrigue that would have William Shakespeare licking his lips and sharpening his quill. Photo by Aleksandr Zykov via Flickr, Creative Commons JONATHAN MANTHORPE December 5, 2014 It’s a story that would have William Shakespeare licking his lips and sharpening his quill. The tale has everything
- [Turkey's Shock Waves Slam Middle East](https://canadianjournalist.ca/turkeys-shock-waves-slam-middle-east/) - JONATHAN MANTHORPE: International Affairs July 30, 2016 The fascist coup of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan – for that is what it is – has thrown a large boulder into the boiling, muddy waters of the Middle East. Turkey’s fellow Sunni Muslim neighbours are apprehensive that Erdogan’s massive purge of his opponents and grabbing of
- [Tyrants trump under-resourced International Criminal Court](https://canadianjournalist.ca/tyrants-trump-under-resourced-international-criminal-court/) - JONATHAN MANTHORPE: International Affairs Dec. 17, 2014 When the International Criminal Court came to life in 2002 it was touted as a place where tyrants and their underlings would be brought to account for genocide and crimes against humanity. But the ICC, based in The Hague, has never gained altitude. The limits on its powers
- [Trump is a feeble version of the Philippines’ Duterte](https://canadianjournalist.ca/trump-is-a-feeble-version-of-the-philippines-duterte/) - JONATHAN MANTHORPE: International Affairs August 13, 2016. In the hierarchy of demagogues, Donald Trump is not in the same league as the Philippines new president, Rodrigo Duterte. Unlike Duterte, whose approval rating is at 91 per cent since he came to office at the end of June, Trump doesn’t have the guts to say what
- [Trump victory rattles Asia](https://canadianjournalist.ca/trump-victory-rattles-asia/) - JONATHAN MANTHORPE: International Affairs November 19, 2016 Public displays of anxiety are frowned on in Japanese culture, and are especially unacceptable in political leaders. Even more anathema to the spirit of “Bushido” – the chivalric code of the samurai warrior – is indulging in self-humiliation. Thus it was extraordinary on Thursday to see Japanese Prime
- [Truth of Franco-Taiwanese bribery scandal dies with fugitive arms-broker](https://canadianjournalist.ca/truth-of-franco-taiwanese-bribery-scandal-dies-with-fugitive-arms-broker/) - Warships from France put Taiwanese, and French, probity in stormy waters.
- [Convocation Address](https://canadianjournalist.ca/convocation-address/) - By PATRICK LANE Published December 3, 2013 It is sixty-five years ago, you’re ten years old and sitting on an old, half-blind, grey horse. All you have is a saddle blanket and a rope for reins as you watch a pack of dogs rage at the foot of a Ponderosa pine. High up on a
- [Canada's Justice Minister is Yesterday's Man](https://canadianjournalist.ca/canadas-justice-minister-is-yesterdays-man/) - CHARLES MANDELJune 27, 2014 Peter MacKay is yesterday’s man. According to Canada’s Justice Minister, women are dedicated moms and caregivers around the clock who are busy changing diapers, packing lunches and dropping the kids off at daycare. In contrast, men are dedicated fathers who are shaping the minds of the next generation. This old-fashioned, blatantly
- [A bale of a good time](https://canadianjournalist.ca/a-bale-of-a-good-time/) - By CHARLES MANDEL AUBURNDALE, Nova Scotia, Canada Thursday night in Auburndale, Nova Scotia, and what's the big entertainment? A drive-in movie, perhaps? Maybe dinner out? How about staring at a big field of hay? That doesn't sound terribly promising, but over four balmy nights in July, Steph and I sit on our front porch, watching grass get
- ["Throw the bastards out"](https://canadianjournalist.ca/throw-the-bastards-out/) - By William Thorsell October, 2015 Not in recent times have Canadian voters had an opportunity to “throw the bastards out” in the classic phrase. Elected officials generally leave office before such public urges get to them. Brian Mulroney stepped down five months before an election was required in 1993. (Kim Campbell launched that campaign in
- [Canada's ambassador to Ireland: Once a Cop, Always a Cop](https://canadianjournalist.ca/canadas-ambassador-to-ireland-once-a-cop-always-a-cop/) - By Brian Brennan May 28, 2016 It's hard to tell from the raw television footage if the shaven-headed protester posed any real danger to the Irish and British dignitaries gathered at a Dublin military cemetery this week to honour British soldiers killed during the 1916 Irish rebellion against British rule. But clearly the Canadian ambassador,
- [Facts, or fictions? How PR flacks exploit Wikipedia](https://canadianjournalist.ca/facts-or-fictions-how-pr-flacks-exploit-wikipedia/) - By Taha Yasseri, University of Oxford September, 2015 If you heard that a group of people were creating, editing, and maintaining Wikipedia articles related to brands, firms and individuals, you could point out, correctly, that this is the entire point of Wikipedia. It is, after all, the “encyclopedia that anyone can edit”. But a group has been
- [Remembrance and Refugees](https://canadianjournalist.ca/remembrance-and-refugees/) - ROD MICKLEBURGH November, 2015 Vancouver, Canada Two days before the numbing atrocities of Paris, I went to the annual Remembrance Day ceremony at the Japanese-Canadian War Memorial in Stanley Park. It was a simple, almost homespun occasion, far removed from the military-like precision of the packed event at the city's main cenotaph downtown. A
- [Remembering the Pillar](https://canadianjournalist.ca/remembering-the-pillar/) - By Brian Brennan April, 2016 On the 50th anniversary of the Easter Rising in 1966, a terrorist explosion blew away the top half of the iconic Nelson's Pillar – a slightly smaller version of the Corinthian column in London's Trafalgar Square – that had dominated Dublin's skyline for 157 years. I was sad to see
- [The Canada We Hope For - Calgary mayor Naheed Nenshi](https://canadianjournalist.ca/the-canada-we-hope-for-calgary-mayor-naheed-nenshi/) - On September 19, Mayor Naheed Nenshi of Calgary, Alberta, presented at the LaFontaine-Baldwin Symposium, an annual event showcasing leading thinkers, hosted by the Institute for Canadian Citizenship and its co-founders and co-chairs, John Ralston Saul and the Right Honourable Adrienne Clarkson. As Canadians head to the polls for Canada's 42nd federal general election, with permission from Mayor Nenshi, F&O republishes excerpts
- [Pete Seeger: Farewell to a Giant](https://canadianjournalist.ca/pete-seeger-farewell-to-a-giant/) - American icon Pete Seeger died January 27, 2014. Author and filmmaker Silver Donald Cameron wrote this newspaper column about him in the dark days of 2001.
- [Thank you, Jean Béliveau](https://canadianjournalist.ca/thank-you-jean-beliveau/) - Jean Béliveau, ranked as one of the world's ten greatest hockey players in the Hockey Hall of Fame, died December 2, 2014. This is E. Kaye Fulton's eulogy to a Canadian who was both an athlete and a gentleman. E. KAYE FULTONDecember, 2014 When I arrived at the Montreal Gazette as a feature writer in 1980,
- [Science and "the environment" should not be separated](https://canadianjournalist.ca/science-and-the-environment-should-not-be-separated/) - By Manu Saunders, Ensia August, 2015 Does the natural world have any relevance to modern science? Of course it does; but sometimes it seems like that’s not the case. This is a myth perpetuated directly and indirectly through media, policy decisions, academic disciplines, even some science engagement initiatives: that the natural world is somehow separate from
- [Photos Shape Attitudes to Refugees: View from Australia](https://canadianjournalist.ca/photos-shape-attitudes-to-refugees-view-from-australia/) - JANE LYDON July 30, 2016 Over the last two decades we have seen the unprecedented politicisation of immigration. Many Australians remember the wave of immigration after World War II when our rapidly developing industrialised economy addressed its labour shortage. Yet, like many Western countries, since the end of the Cold War we have worked to
- [On wanting to fit in and Rachel Dolezal](https://canadianjournalist.ca/on-wanting-to-fit-in-and-rachel-dolezal/) - By Penney Kome June, 2015 “Mom, I want braids,” I said one day, as we walked home from my kindergarten to our apartment on the South Side of Chicago. “All the girls in school have braids. I want braids.” “Don’t you like your hair in a bob?” she countered. “Like mommy’s?” But I persisted and she gave
- [Two decades of disaster: Newfoundland's fishery](https://canadianjournalist.ca/two-decades-of-disaster-newfoundlands-fishery/) - Looking back on 20 years since the Newfoundland cod moratorium and ecological disaster by Greg Locke
- [Wanted: A new story of humanity's place in the world](https://canadianjournalist.ca/11636-2/) - The prevailing perception of humans as inherently at odds with nature is not only false, it's counterproductive By Philip Loring June, 2015 It goes without saying that humans are good at causing problems. Climate change, overfishing and widespread environmental contamination from chemical toxicants are all creations of our own making. But are we destined to
- [The Ugly Oil Sands Debate](https://canadianjournalist.ca/the-ugly-oil-sands-debate/) - TZEPORAH BERMANJune 18, 2014 I have family who work in Canada's oil sands. They know that I have been a vocal critic of current oil sands operations and plans for expansion, yet they didn’t hesitate to welcome me into their homes and to invite me to a family gathering in Canmore, Alberta. We had a
- [Tide turning against climate change deniers](https://canadianjournalist.ca/tide-turning-against-climate-change-deniers/) - TOM REGAN November, 2014 In his book The Believing Brain author Michael Shermer, the founding publisher of Skeptic magazine, makes the following proposal: belief comes first, then the reasons for belief comes second. So to use an example, an individual might believe in ghosts, so she will then find the reasons to support that belief.
- [Voting and Canadian values](https://canadianjournalist.ca/voting-and-canadian-values/) - By David Suzuki October, 2015 When my grandparents arrived from Japan in the early 1900s, Canada was far less tolerant than it is today. Women and minorities couldn’t vote, nor could Indigenous people who had lived here from time immemorial. In 1942, the government took away my Canadian-born family’s property and rights and sent us
- [“We are all treaty people”](https://canadianjournalist.ca/we-are-all-treaty-people/) - PENNEY KOME: OVER EASY January, 2015 One day early this year, 75 people showed up for 35 seats at a free seminar in downtown Calgary called “We Are All Treaty People.” This was the first of three lunchtime brownbag seminars intended to “bring healing between mainstream Canadians and First Nations peoples,” said Karen Huggins of
- ['The killing has to stop:' Canada's missing women's inquiry](https://canadianjournalist.ca/the-killing-has-to-stop-canadas-missing-womens-inquiry/) - PENNEY KOME: OVER EASY August, 2016 "The killing has to stop," said Nicole Robertson, naming the most urgent goal of Canada's inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women (MMIW) at a panel discussion in Calgary. Robertson, a Cree, won the 2009 Aboriginal Woman Entrepreneur Award of Distinction for her media work, and also has a daughter old enough
- [Justin Trudeau's speech to his kids](https://canadianjournalist.ca/justin-trudeaus-acceptance-speech-and-his-kids/) - PENNEY KOME: OVER EASY October, 2015 "Dear kids, we are starting on a new adventure together," newly-elected Justin Trudeau said from the giant overhead TV screen. I was standing in Liberal candidate Matt Grant's post-election party when Trudeau's acceptance speech appeared on overhead TVs in the Red and White Club in Calgary, Alberta's, McMahon Stadium.
- [The Canadian roots of indigenous equality rights declaration](https://canadianjournalist.ca/the-canadian-roots-of-indigenous-equality-rights-declaration/) - “All the rights and freedoms recognized herein are equally guaranteed to male and female indigenous individuals.” PENNEY KOME: OVER EASY October, 2016 I did a double-take recently when I came across Article 44 of the 2001 United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP). The wording closely echoes Section 28 of Canada’s
- [Deepa Mehta: pushing boundaries with Beeba Boys](https://canadianjournalist.ca/deepa-mehta-pushing-boundaries-with-beeba-boys/) - PENNEY KOME: OVER EASY February, 2016 All of Deepa Mehta's major films have caused controversy, including the latest, Beeba Boys. Just released, Beeba Boys (kind of a Sikh Sopranos) depicts the stylish, violent world of second- and third-generation Indian gang-bangers in metro Vancouver. The topic is timely -- 150 young men have died in gang violence in the Western
- [BILL WUTTUNEE remembered 1928 - 2015](https://canadianjournalist.ca/bill-wuttunee-remembered-1928-2015/) - PENNEY KOME November, 2015 My hero and longtime friend William Wutunee has gone to meet the Great Creator at the age of 87. Or maybe not. Although Bill was a shaman who sometimes donned his Grand Chief eagle feather headdress to lead our Unitarian congregation in healing circles, he was also an intellectual who enjoyed
- [A philosopher asks: what do we owe the dead?](https://canadianjournalist.ca/a-philosopher-asks-what-do-we-owe-the-dead/) - By Janna Thompson, La Trobe UniversityNovember 11, 2014 Remembrance Day is an occasion when people are supposed to remember and honour those who died in their nation’s wars. But why should we believe that this obligation exists? The dead are dead. They can’t be gratified by our remembrance or insulted by a failure to honour
- [A barbaric cultural practice: using racism to earn votes](https://canadianjournalist.ca/a-barbaric-cultural-practice-using-racism-to-earn-votes/) - TOM REGAN: SUMMONING ORENDA October, 2015 There comes a moment when every country has to go through a “dark night of the soul.” That moment when the country loses its moral moorings and drifts off into a miasma of racism and bigotry and hatred of the Other. We see it happening in Hungary, with its
- [Commercial journalism can't die fast enough](https://canadianjournalist.ca/commercial-journalism-cant-die-fast-enough/) - TOM REGAN: SUMMONING ORENDA May 14, 2016 Friends, North Americans, country men (and women), I come to bury commercial journalism, not to praise it. First of all because there is almost nothing to praise. And unlike Marc Anthony with Caesar, I want to bury it deep in the ground where it belongs. And drive a
- [Canada’s dark time might be closer than you think](https://canadianjournalist.ca/canadas-dark-time-might-be-closer-than-you-think/) - TOM REGAN: SUMMONING ORENDA November 19, 2016 After the election of 2015, Canadians probably thought they were safe from the kind of racism and bigotry that has gripped the United States after the election of Donald Trump. After all, the Stephen Harper-led Conservatives party made racism one of the key components of its re-election strategy,
- [Not all things in journalism are equal](https://canadianjournalist.ca/not-all-things-in-journalism-are-equal/) - TOM REGAN: SUMMONING ORENDA September 17, 2010 Several years ago, then CNN journalist Campbell Brown uttered what I’ve always called the “Campbell dictum” on reporting: “If I interview two politicians, and one says it’s raining and one says it’s sunny and I look outside and it’s raining, I’m not going to report that it’s raining
- [Freedom of the press ain't so free anymore](https://canadianjournalist.ca/freedom-of-the-press-aint-so-free-anymore/) - TOM REGAN February 20, 2015 Many years ago, when I was a Nieman fellow at Harvard University, a colleague and friend from Uganda, Charles Unyongo-Obbo, and I were the last two people to leave a function. As we walked out into the crisp fall air of Cambridge I noticed that Charles was scanning up and down
- [Newspapers their own worst enemy in battle to survive](https://canadianjournalist.ca/newspapers-their-own-worst-enemy-in-battle-to-survive/) - TOM REGAN: SUMMONING ORENDA January, 2016 From as early as I can remember my mother told me she knew that I was going to be a journalist. One day, many years later, I asked her how she knew. “That’s easy,” she said to me. “The black smudge mark on the end of your nose.” Ah
- [Dump the Olympics](https://canadianjournalist.ca/dump-the-olympics/) - TOM REGAN: SUMMONING ORENDA August 6, 2016 There comes a time in life when all good things must come to an end. This is certainly true of the “modern” Olympics with one small change – the Olympics are no longer a good thing. Once a celebration of the best amateur athletes in the world, the
- [Priest sex abuse: before Boston, there was Newfoundland](https://canadianjournalist.ca/priest-sex-abuse-before-boston-there-was-newfoundland/) - TOM REGAN: SUMMONING ORENDA November, 2015 It was a bombshell. A well-known local paper printing a front-page exposé on sexual abuse by Catholic religious figures in an overwhelmingly Catholic region of the country. Not only did the story expose malfeasance on the part of the Roman Catholic Church, but also on the part of many
- [Doomsday Clock: can we really predict the end of the world?](https://canadianjournalist.ca/doomsday-clock-can-we-really-predict-the-end-of-the-world/) - ANDERS SANDBERG, University of Oxford January 23, 2015 The second hand of the Doomsday Clock is now only three minutes to midnight. This is the closest to apocalypse we have come since 1984 – the coldest of Cold War years, just a year after Able Archer, the Petrov incident and Reagan’s “evil empire” speech. The Bulletin
- [Digital Domesday: surveillance and serfdom](https://canadianjournalist.ca/digital-domesday-surveillance-and-serfdom/) - By Graham Murdock, Loughborough UniversityJune, 2015 In 1085, almost two decades had passed since William the Conqueror’s victory at Hastings, but his realm was not secure. The threat of internal insurrection was constant. To consolidate his rule William needed to know who owned what, what taxes he could raise and where the military capacity he could
- [How to write a best-selling novel](https://canadianjournalist.ca/how-to-write-a-best-selling-novel/) - ANDY MARTIN, University of Cambridge April, 2016 So you want to write a novel? Of course you do. Everyone wants to write a novel at some stage in their lives. While you’re at it, why not make it a popular bestseller? Who wants to write an unpopular worstseller? Therefore, make it a thriller. It worked
- [Mark Carney: The tragedy of the horizon](https://canadianjournalist.ca/mark-carney-the-tragedy-of-the-horizon/) - A tragedy looms on the horizon, warns Mark Carney, one of the world's most influential central bankers. "Our societies face a series of profound environmental and social challenges," he said in a speech to Lloyd's of London. "The combination of the weight of scientific evidence and the dynamics of the financial system suggest that, in the fullness of
- [Rare win for journalism as PR firms overwhelm news](https://canadianjournalist.ca/rare-win-for-journalism-as-pr-firms-overwhelm-news/) - By John Jewell, Cardiff University October, 2016 Recent articles about the public relations firm Bell Pottinger are a stark reminder of the power and pervasiveness of PR in today’s fragmented media landscape. The Sunday Times and the Bureau of Investigative Journalism revealed that Bell Pottinger was hired by the Pentagon in Washington to coordinate a covert
- [Canada's Mayor](https://canadianjournalist.ca/canadas-mayor/) - Self-styled “brown guy” Naheed Nenshi has reshaped politics in Canada’s conservative, white-bread energy capital. By BRIAN BRENNAN October, 2013 The mayor of Calgary, Alberta, was about to give a speech in Toronto when an aide drew him aside to tell of trouble brewing back home. Floodwaters were surging in the Rocky Mountains. Towns upstream
- [The Pointy End](https://canadianjournalist.ca/the-pointy-end/) - How does a long-time campaigner find hope in the face of the latest IPCC report warning that the entire world is already affected by climate change?
- [Who is a journalist? What is journalism?](https://canadianjournalist.ca/who-is-a-journalist-what-is-journalism/) - STEPHEN J.A. WARDAugust, 2014 The ‘democratization’ of media – technology that allows citizens to engage in journalism and publication of many kinds – blurs the identity of journalists and the idea of what constitutes journalism. In the previous century, journalists were a clearly defined group. For the most part, they were professionals who wrote for
- [The Banality of Ethics in the Anthropocene](https://canadianjournalist.ca/the-banality-of-ethics-in-the-anthropocene/) - CLIVE HAMILTONJuly, 2015 Among the great crimes of the 20th century the most enduring will surely prove to be human disruption of the Earth’s climate. The effects of human-induced climate change are apparent now and will become severe this century, but the warming is expected to last thousands of years. That is so because extra
- [Vancouver: Fool’s paradise, or model for 21st Century?](https://canadianjournalist.ca/vancouver-fools-paradise-or-model-for-21st-century/) - Canada's West Coast "paradise" dealing with geographical and economic limits
- [Risky Business: The Facts Behind Fracking](https://canadianjournalist.ca/risky-business-the-facts-behind-fracking/) - Chris Wood writes about the risks, technology and uses of fracking - hydraulic fracturing.
- [The Animal "Kingdom of the Dead"](https://canadianjournalist.ca/the-animal-kingdom-of-the-dead/) - By Deborah JonesDecember, 2014 In early December a young, pregnant and dead whale was found near Vancouver Island off Western Canada. Her carcass was towed from the water and left on shore to await the researchers who would perform her necropsy. Soon afterward, under the cover of night, somebody visited her body, hacked at her jaw,
- [‘Spotlight' Gets Investigative Journalism Right](https://canadianjournalist.ca/spotlight-gets-investigative-journalism-right/) - "Spotlight," the film based on the Boston Globe's investigation of the Catholic Church, is a remarkable achievement. -- Stephen Engelberg, ProPublica editor STEPHEN ENGELBERG, ProPublica February, 2016 There's a moment in almost every movie when people in the audience who really know the line of work depicted on screen cry out in frustration and
- [A Comedian Looking at the World Through Different Eyes: Milt Kamen](https://canadianjournalist.ca/a-comedian-looking-at-the-world-through-different-eyes-milt-kamen/) - BRIAN BRENNAN: BRIEF ENCOUNTERS June, 2015 Milt Kamen was an American comedian who made his mark on network television, appearing on such programs as The Tonight Show and The Merv Griffin Show, giving spontaneous and cheerfully irreverent “reviews” of current movies. As an example, when he praised Rex Harrison’s acting with Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton
- [A Playmate Who Loved Good Music: Shari Lewis](https://canadianjournalist.ca/a-playmate-who-loved-good-music-shari-lewis/) - BRIAN BRENNAN: BRIEF ENCOUNTERS November, 2014 Before I met Shari Lewis, I was under the impression – probably like a lot of people – that she was just a popular children’s entertainer; a ventriloquist with a cute sock puppet named Lamb Chop. To my surprise, I discovered she was much more: a trained musician who
- [“The Drill Sergeant of Canadian Rock ’n’ Roll”: Rompin’ Ronnie Hawkins](https://canadianjournalist.ca/the-drill-sergeant-of-canadian-rock-n-roll-rompin-ronnie-hawkins/) - BRIAN BRENNAN: BRIEF ENCOUNTERS March 2015 In 1976, at age 41, Ronnie Hawkins was as old as Elvis. And like Elvis, he was packing some weight around the middle. But unlike Elvis, then rumoured to be near retirement (he died the following year), the Hawk had no plans yet to quit. “I still wanna play,”
- ["They Went That-a-way": Burt Mustin](https://canadianjournalist.ca/they-went-that-a-way-burt-mustin/) - BRIAN BRENNAN: BRIEF ENCOUNTERS September 2014 I just knew I had to interview Burt Mustin when he walked into the newspaper office in June 1973 and told the receptionist he was “the best they-went-that-a-way” actor working in Hollywood. Work had stopped in the film capital because of a screenwriters’ strike. So Mustin was taking a short
- ["Amazing Grace": Judy Collins](https://canadianjournalist.ca/amazing-grace-judy-collins/) - BRIAN BRENNAN: BRIEF ENCOUNTERS October 2014 Before American Idol there was the Kiwanis International Talent Search. The year was 1956, the place was Denver, Colorado. Sixteen-year-old Judy Collins won first prize singing an English folk ballad, Pretty Saro, at a regional talent contest jointly sponsored by Kiwanis clubs in Colorado and three other American states. For
- [From King Arthur to Dumbledore: Richard Harris](https://canadianjournalist.ca/from-king-arthur-to-dumbledore-richard-harris/) - BRIAN BRENNAN: BRIEF ENCOUNTERS October, 2014 There was no booze in the star’s dressing room when Richard Harris came to Canada to star as the the once and future King Arthur in a touring production of Camelot. The one-time roaring boy from Limerick, Ireland – former drinking buddy of Peter O’Toole, Richard Burton and
- [From the West End to The Well-Manicured Man: John Neville](https://canadianjournalist.ca/from-the-west-end-to-the-well-manicured-man-john-neville/) - BRIAN BRENNAN: BRIEF ENCOUNTERS August 2015 John Neville was a star of the London stage during the 1950s, excelling both in Shakespearean roles and in productions of contemporary plays. Though known primarily as a classical actor with impeccable diction, Neville surprised critics and audiences with his pitch-perfect portrayal of the title character in Alfie, the play
- [From Shakespeare to “Blue Bloods”: Len Cariou](https://canadianjournalist.ca/from-shakespeare-to-blue-bloods-len-cariou/) - BRIAN BRENNAN: BRIEF ENCOUNTERSFebruary, 2015 By envisioning King Lear’s age as “four score and upward,” Shakespeare created a great role for an actor to play in the autumn of his career. So wasn’t Len Cariou, at age 44, a bit young for the part? In fact, he told me, he had already done it. Ten
- [From Marathon Dancing to Pop Stardom: Frankie Laine](https://canadianjournalist.ca/from-marathon-dancing-to-pop-stardom-frankie-laine/) - BRIAN BRENNAN: BRIEF ENCOUNTERS August, 2014 In his heyday, singer Frankie Laine was all over the radio, on records and in jukeboxes, and on the soundtracks of movies and television shows. But when he did an interview with me at age 63 in 1976, he wanted to talk first about his little-known Depression-era career as a
- [From High School Dropout to Brand-name Novelist: Leon Uris](https://canadianjournalist.ca/from-guadalcanal-to-ireland-novelist-leon-uris-island-journey/) - BRIAN BRENNAN: BRIEF ENCOUNTERS October, 2014 I must admit I came loaded for bear when I went to interview bestselling American author Leon Uris. Earlier, I had written a negative review of Trinity, his 751-page novel dealing with Northern Ireland’s politics of violence. After spending the first 23 years of my life in Dublin, I figured
- [From “Brief Lives” to “Game of Thrones”: Roy Dotrice](https://canadianjournalist.ca/from-brief-lives-to-game-of-thrones-roy-dotrice/) - BRIAN BRENNAN: BRIEF ENCOUNTERS June, 2015 As Hal Holbrook did with Mark Twain and Julie Harris did with Emily Dickinson, so did Roy Dotrice make his mark with John Aubrey: He found a larger-than-life character he could effectively portray on stage in a one-person show. But in Dotrice’s case, instead of choosing a famous personality, he
- [Finding Her Roots in Country Music: Anne Murray](https://canadianjournalist.ca/finding-her-roots-in-country-music-anne-murray/) - BRIAN BRENNAN: BRIEF ENCOUNTERS July 2015 Today they call them media opportunities. Back in the day, they were known as press conferences. Reporters didn’t like them because the stories that came out of them were inconsequential. This was particularly true in the case of press conferences with entertainers. What could some singer flogging a new album
- [Every Day He Had the Blues: B.B. King](https://canadianjournalist.ca/every-day-he-had-the-blues-b-b-king/) - BRIAN BRENNAN: BRIEF ENCOUNTERSMay 2015 The musician’s nightmare, a broken guitar string, caused barely a ripple in the smooth performance of B.B. King the night I saw him playing an Edmonton nightclub gig in 1977. “When your guitar string breaks, then you really got the blues,” quipped the then 51-year-old musician. He grabbed a fresh
- [Critiquing the Critics: Barry Morse](https://canadianjournalist.ca/critiquing-the-critics-barry-morse/) - BRIAN BRENNAN: BRIEF ENCOUNTERS July 2015 I wanted to talk to Barry Morse about Lieutenant Gerard, the dogged detective he had played for four seasons in The Fugitive, one of the biggest TV hits of the 1960s. But Morse wanted to talk about theatre critics; ill-informed theatre critics. He’d suffered at the hands of a few.
- [Conducting Canada to Musical Maturity: Mario Bernardi](https://canadianjournalist.ca/conducting-canada-to-musical-maturity-mario-bernardi/) - BRIAN BRENNAN: BRIEF ENCOUNTERS December, 2014 They thought Mario Bernardi was crazy in 1969 when he left a prestige conducting job at the Sadler’s Wells Opera in London to start up a new orchestra from scratch at the National Arts Centre (NAC) in Ottawa. They also thought he was crazy in 1984 when he left
- [Choreographer to the Stars: Norman Maen](https://canadianjournalist.ca/choreographer-to-the-stars-norman-maen/) - BRIAN BRENNAN: BRIEF ENCOUNTERS August, 2014 I had two questions for choreographer Norman Maen: 1. How did he choreograph an ice show for Olympic skating champion John Curry when Maen didn’t skate? 2. What was it like working with Rudolf Nureyev on The Muppet Show? His answer to the first question was straightforward enough, if a
- [Canada’s Queen of Suspense: L.R. (Bunny) Wright](https://canadianjournalist.ca/canadas-queen-of-suspense-l-r-bunny-wright/) - BRIAN BRENNAN: BRIEF ENCOUNTERSMay 2015 Mourning was widespread for mystery writer Bunny Wright when she died of breast cancer at age 61 in February 2001. Fellow writers penned personal tributes that were published in newspapers across Canada. Her two daughters, who had worked on the final copy-edit of their mother’s last novel, Menace, while
- [Bucking Pop Music Labels: Colleen Peterson](https://canadianjournalist.ca/bucking-pop-music-labels-colleen-peterson/) - BRIAN BRENNAN: BRIEF ENCOUNTERS August 2015 The newspapers couldn’t figure out how to classify Colleen Peterson’s singing when she was first making her way in the music business in the late 1960s. Neither could the record industry. Sometimes she was listed under folk, other times she was classified as blues, other times she was categorized as
- [Bucking Hollywood’s commercial trend: John Frankenheimer](https://canadianjournalist.ca/bucking-hollywoods-commercial-trend-john-frankenheimer/) - Columnist Brian Brennan met director John Frankenheimer 25 years ago.
- [Blood, Sweat & Tears: David Clayton-Thomas](https://canadianjournalist.ca/blood-sweat-tears-david-clayton-thomas/) - David Clayton-Powell is the subject.
- [Art Following Life: Elizabeth Taylor](https://canadianjournalist.ca/art-following-life-elizabeth-taylor/) - BRIAN BRENNAN: BRIEF ENCOUNTERS September, 2015 My very brief encounter with Elizabeth Taylor occurred late on a Saturday afternoon in May 1983 on a busy street in midtown Manhattan. A mounted New York City policeman was barking orders to the small crowd of about 30 waiting outside the stage door of the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre on
- [Absolutely Fabulous: Sophia Loren](https://canadianjournalist.ca/absolutely-fabulous-sophia-loren/) - BRIAN BRENNAN: BRIEF ENCOUNTERSFebruary 6, 2015 Sophia Loren hardly ever talked to reporters, and hadn’t planned to do so when she came to Canada in 1987 to promote some beauty products. But after I talked to her publicity people, I was told I could interview her as long as I didn’t ask her about two
- [Abandoning Playwriting for Novel Writing: Robertson Davies](https://canadianjournalist.ca/abandoning-playwriting-for-novel-writing-robertson-davies/) - BRIAN BRENNAN: BRIEF ENCOUNTERSMarch 2015 The Mephistophelean eyebrows, like symmetrical question marks on a massive forehead, projected an attitude of fierceness. But the twinkling eyes, grandfatherly disposition and easy laugh told another story. If you had dressed him in a red suit, with his bushy beard and snowy-white mane, Robertson Davies could have passed for
- [A Satirist Wanting to Be Taken Seriously: Nancy White](https://canadianjournalist.ca/a-satirist-wanting-to-be-taken-seriously-nancy-white/) - BRIAN BRENNAN: BRIEF ENCOUNTERS October, 2015 At her most prolific, Nancy White was writing three to five topical satire songs a week and performing them on CBC Radio’s public affairs show, Sunday Morning. But nobody could maintain that pace indefinitely. When I talked to her in 1979, White at age 34 was burned out and
- [A prolific novelist on diverse themes: Brian Moore](https://canadianjournalist.ca/a-prolific-novelist-on-diverse-themes-brian-moore/) - BRIAN BRENNAN: BRIEF ENCOUNTERS December, 2014 After 25 years of writing novels, Brian Moore was trying his hand at playwriting when I met him in Edmonton in 1981. He had adapted his novella Catholics for television in 1973 and now was preparing it for its Canadian stage debut at the Citadel Theatre. He was enjoying the experience of
- [Happy to be a Company Actress: Ann Casson](https://canadianjournalist.ca/happy-to-be-a-company-actress-ann-casson/) - BRIAN BRENNAN: BRIEF ENCOUNTERSMay 2015 Being the daughter of British theatrical royalty was a mixed blessing for Ann Casson. Her father, Sir Lewis Casson, and her mother, Dame Sybil Thorndike, captivated audiences on both sides of the Atlantic during the first half of the 20th century, when liners and ocean crossings were redolent of a
- [Giving a Canadian Accent to the Stratford Festival: John Hirsch](https://canadianjournalist.ca/giving-a-canadian-accent-to-the-stratford-festival-john-hirsch/) - BRIAN BRENNAN: BRIEF ENCOUNTERS April, 2015 When I first met John Hirsch in 1977, he talked so passionately about Canadian theatre that I wondered why this Hungarian-born director wasn’t running a theatre company instead of working in television. He had co-founded Canada’s first professional regional theatre, the Manitoba Theatre Centre, as a 27-year-old in 1958,
- [The Enduring Peter Pan of British Pop: Cliff Richard](https://canadianjournalist.ca/the-enduring-peter-pan-of-british-pop-cliff-richard/) - Cliff Richard dated back to the early days of British rock, back to even before the Beatles, which made him very dated indeed. Yet you hardly would have known that if you saw him, as I did in March 1981, getting ready to do a concert in Calgary. There he was, the eternal Peter Pan of English popular music, looking 10 years younger than his 40 years, a testament to clean and righteous living.
- [The clown prince of music: Victor Borge](https://canadianjournalist.ca/the-clown-prince-of-music-victor-borge/) - Brian Brennan's Feb. 13 column
- [The Brain-Injured Pop Star: Jimmie Rodgers](https://canadianjournalist.ca/the-brain-injured-pop-star-jimmie-rodgers/) - BRIAN BRENNAN: BRIEF ENCOUNTERS October, 2015 He had made his mark at age 24 when his first single, "Honeycomb," sold a million copies in the United States. He quickly followed that with two more million-sellers, "Kisses Sweeter than Wine" and "Oh-Oh, I'm Falling in Love Again." From that point onward, the pop singer Jimmie Rodgers
- [The “Mighty Mite” of the Tommy Hunter Show: Debbie Lori Kaye](https://canadianjournalist.ca/the-mighty-mite-of-the-tommy-hunter-show-debbie-lori-kaye/) - BRIAN BRENNAN: BRIEF ENCOUNTERS June, 2015 At age 18, Debbie Lori Kaye became the youngest performer in history to have her own variety special on CBC TV. A tiny singer with a big voice, her star had been rising steadily for four years. At age 14, she had signed a six-year recording contract with Columbia
- [Television Comedy for Intelligent Viewers: Bob Newhart](https://canadianjournalist.ca/television-comedy-for-intelligent-viewers-bob-newhart/) - BRIAN BRENNAN: BRIEF ENCOUNTERS April, 2015 “I last played here 18 years ago,” Bob Newhart told the reporters at a Toronto press conference in 1978 when he announced his return to stand-up comedy. “I think the act went over well because, as you can see, they invited me back.” It was the kind of dead-panned
- [Singing for the Godfather: Al Martino](https://canadianjournalist.ca/singing-for-the-godfather-al-martino/) - BRIAN BRENNAN: BRIEF ENCOUNTERS July 2015 He had made a big splash when he played the role of the troubled wedding singer Johnny Fontane in the movie The Godfather. But Al Martino had no particular desire to do another film when he came to Canada in 1975 to perform the easy-listening pop favourites that had kept
- [Rock 'n' Roll Survivor: Randy Bachman](https://canadianjournalist.ca/rock-n-roll-survivor-randy-bachman/) - BRIAN BRENNAN: BRIEF ENCOUNTERS September 2014 When I first met him in 1978, Randy Bachman had seemingly committed career suicide not once but twice. Or so it seemed to his fans at the time. First he walked away from the Guess Who immediately after the band’s American Woman became the first song by a Canadian rock
- [Physician Heal Thyself: Sharon Pollock](https://canadianjournalist.ca/physician-heal-thyself-sharon-pollock/) - BRIAN BRENNAN: BRIEF ENCOUNTERS September, 2015 I had seen and reviewed several of Sharon Pollock’s plays before I interviewed her in 1984 about Doc, the most autobiographical of her works. It deals with a respected physician in Fredericton, New Brunswick whose mentally unstable mother and alcoholic wife both kill themselves. How much of it was real
- [Overcoming Deafness to Cry His Way to Pop Stardom: Johnnie Ray](https://canadianjournalist.ca/overcoming-deafness-to-cry-his-way-to-pop-stardom-johnnie-ray/) - BRIAN BRENNAN: BRIEF ENCOUNTERS September, 2015 By the time he was 49, Johnnie Ray had dried the tears that carried him to stardom with such hits as “Cry” and “The Little White Cloud That Cried.” He had replaced the weepy histrionics of his early singing career with a somewhat tempered – if still melodramatically intense –
- [Out of the Saddle, Playing Papa to a Super-baby: Glenn Ford](https://canadianjournalist.ca/out-of-the-saddle-playing-papa-to-a-super-baby-glenn-ford/) - BRIAN BRENNAN: BRIEF ENCOUNTERS November, 2014 The line was, “Martha Clark Kent, are you listening to what I’m saying?” It was scripted for Glenn Ford, playing a Kansas farmer named Jonathan Kent in the 1978 movie Superman. A spaceship containing the baby Superman had just crash-landed in the Kent wheat field and the farmer’s wife
- [One Playwright’s Homage to Another: Tennessee Williams](https://canadianjournalist.ca/one-playwrights-homage-to-another-tennessee-williams/) - BRIAN BRENNAN: BRIEF ENCOUNTERSFebruary, 2015 Tennessee Williams had always wanted to reimagine Anton Chekhov’s 1896 play, The Seagull. He considered it the greatest of modern plays after Brecht’s Mother Courage, and he felt it had never been properly released from the confines of the translation straitjacket. “The translations are all so stilted,” he told me
- [Minstrel Boys: Tommy Makem and Liam Clancy](https://canadianjournalist.ca/minstrel-boys-tommy-makem-and-liam-clancy/) - BRIAN BRENNAN: BRIEF ENCOUNTERS July 2015 As a quartet, they went by the rather cumbersome stage name of “The Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem.” They moved from Ireland to America in their 20s to try and make their living as actors, and found they could make more money singing the traditional ballads and nationalistic rebel
- [Looking for The Lady in Red: Chris de Burgh](https://canadianjournalist.ca/looking-for-the-lady-in-red-chris-de-burgh/) - BRIAN BRENNAN: BRIEF ENCOUNTERSMarch 2015 Chris de Burgh was 27 years old and something of a British cult favourite when I spoke to him about his music. A single from his first album, Far Beyond These Castle Walls, had spent 17 weeks at #1 in Brazil of all places, and an English music magazine had
- [Hey, Hey We’re the Monkees: Michael Nesmith](https://canadianjournalist.ca/hey-hey-were-the-monkees-michael-nesmith/) - Brian Brennan remembers an interview he conducted 35 years ago with Michael Nesmith of the Monkees.
- [Hail! Hail! Rock 'n' Roll: Chuck Berry](https://canadianjournalist.ca/hail-hail-rock-n-roll-chuck-berry/) - BRIAN BRENNAN: BRIEF ENCOUNTERS October 2014 Chuck Berry was cranky. He hadn’t seen a contract for his scheduled nightclub appearance, and he wasn’t about to step out of the airport limo that had brought him to the club. The club had sold tickets for two dinner shows, but Berry wasn’t going to do even one show
- [Hail to the Chieftains: Paddy Moloney](https://canadianjournalist.ca/hail-to-the-chieftains-paddy-moloney/) - BRIAN BRENNAN: BRIEF ENCOUNTERS August 2015 Nobody had ever made a living playing Irish traditional instrumental music so Paddy Moloney followed his mother’s advice and got himself a day job. He worked from nine to five as a clerk at a Dublin building supplies firm and spent his evenings and weekends playing tin whistle and uilleann
- [Giving Her Regards to Broadway: Nicola Cavendish](https://canadianjournalist.ca/giving-her-regards-to-broadway-nicola-cavendish/) - BRIAN BRENNAN: BRIEF ENCOUNTERS April, 2015 It was the question everyone working in theatre lives to hear: “How would you like to be in a Broadway show?” Nicola Cavendish was about to star in a Canadian production of Educating Rita when she received the call from director Brian Bedford. The 35-year-old actress immediately dropped everything,
- [Getting Back to his Country Roots: Kenny Rogers](https://canadianjournalist.ca/getting-back-to-his-country-roots-kenny-rogers/) - BRIAN BRENNAN: BRIEF ENCOUNTERS October, 2015 Kenny Rogers was having a musical-identity crisis at age 39 when I spoke with him in 1977 before a club gig in Calgary. At that point his beard was already turning salt-and-pepper and the wrinkles were starting to show around his eyes. He was still wearing the Beatles suit
- [Critical Assembly](https://canadianjournalist.ca/critical-assembly/) - By Brian BrennanPublished February 15, 2014 We came to Berlin, a city politically divided, to talk about theatre criticism. We were 140 writers from 40 countries and for the better part of a week we wrangled like arms control negotiators. It was the autumn of 1987, the year marking the 750th anniversary of Berlin's founding.
- [The Fan Dancer: Sally Rand](https://canadianjournalist.ca/the-fan-dancer-sally-rand/) - BRIAN BRENNAN: BRIEF ENCOUNTERSAugust, 2014 My assignment was to interview a 71-year-old grandmother who danced nude while waving a couple of big white ostrich-feather fans like the veils of Salome. She had been a star in 1933 when she created a sensation at the Chicago World’s Fair, but now she seemed more of a curiosity.
- [Goliath, 1 -- Creators, 0](https://canadianjournalist.ca/goliath-1-creators-0/) - By Deborah JonesPublished November 14, 2013 Google won a skirmish today in the exhausting copyright war between the company and the United States' Authors Guild, over its Google Books project to digitally scan the world's books. The guild maintains that Google is violating copyright - and in 2005 it launched a suit against the company. Judge Denny
- [Hooking Up](https://canadianjournalist.ca/hooking-up/) - Review of Tom Wolfe's collection of essays, Hooking Up, by Charles Mandel
- [A Crowbar In The Buddhist Garden: Writing From Prison](https://canadianjournalist.ca/a-crowbar-in-the-buddhist-garden-writing-from-prison/) - By JOYCE THIERRY LLEWELLYN A Crowbar in the Buddhist Garden: Writing From Prison.Stephen ReidThistledown Press, 168 pp. “If you find a pink vibrator washed up on a beach you might laugh and walk on by. But when you find a pink vibrator washed up on a beach and you are in prison — you do
- [Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk](https://canadianjournalist.ca/billy-lynns-long-halftime-walk/) - By CHARLES MANDEL Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime WalkBy Ben FountainEcco, 307 pp., $28.99 It takes a particular kind of genius to set an entire novel around a football game’s halftime show. Sure, the halftime extravaganzas at the large NFL games offers lots in the way of spectacle, but you wouldn’t expect to find the experience
- [A zigzag life: James Houston](https://canadianjournalist.ca/a-zigzag-life-james-houston/) - James Houston, Canadian Arctic, Inuit, sculpture, printmaking, Steuben Glass
- [Apocalypse soon: T.C. Boyle applies dark humour to a grim future](https://canadianjournalist.ca/apocalypse-soon-t-c-boyle-applies-dark-humour-to-a-grim-future/) - By CHARLES MANDEL A Friend of the EarthBy T.C. BoylePenguin Canada, 271 pages Half-way through T. Coraghessan Boyle's A Friend of the Earth, a dark comedy about environmental failure set in 2025, one of the planet's few remaining hyenas escapes from a rock star's menagerie. Widespread storms and floods have forced Maclovio Pulchris, a character clearly based
- [Are children's books "literature?"](https://canadianjournalist.ca/are-childrens-books-literature/) - By Kiera Vaclavik, Queen Mary University of London December, 2014 Maurice Sendak, author of Where the Wild Things Are, was an ardent defender of children’s literature, believing the works of Beatrix Potter to be equal to “the greatest English prose writers that have lived". One wonders therefore what he would have made of the rather unedifying
- [Alice Munro: Nobel a victory for the neglected short story](https://canadianjournalist.ca/alice-munro-nobel-a-victory-for-the-neglected-short-story/) - Beth Palmer, University of Surrey October, 2013 The announcement of Alice Munro as 2013’s winner of the Nobel Prize for literature marks the high point in the 82-year old writer’s long career, but also a significant recognition for the form with which she is so closely aligned, the short story. She has been called “Our Chekhov”
- [Electronic or on calf skin, knowledge never more threatened](https://canadianjournalist.ca/electronic-or-on-calf-skin-knowledge-never-more-threatened/) - By Richard Ovenden, University of Oxford March, 2016 Information is constantly under attack. A current debate around the longstanding use of vellum (a parchment made using calf skin) for printing key legislative documents highlights the continued concern over this. Some are advocating a switch from vellum to archive paper, which costs much less and can last up
- [Spider Robinson moves on](https://canadianjournalist.ca/spider-robinson-moves-on/) - Sci-Fi writer Spider Robinson used to say home was “wherever I plug in my stereo and computer." To his astonishment it hurts to leave “this cold, grey town, which starves its artists and then imports its art from points west . . . I am one of the rare, fortunate artists who can earn a
- [Incendiary performance: from Gumboot Lollypop to the Olympics](https://canadianjournalist.ca/incendiary-performance-from-gumboot-lollypop-to-the-olympics/) - Dolly Hopkins profile by Deborah Jones.
- [MOVIES: Cold War Relics Fight On](https://canadianjournalist.ca/movies-cold-war-relics-fight-on/) - By Brian BrennanCALGARY, Alberta, 1989 On the eastern edge of the Rocky Mountains, in a mock English pub converted temporarily into a Bavarian inn, the night air holds a solemn stillness as the director John Frankenheimer shoots the pivotal scene of his latest movie. A uniformed Soviet army officer appears, suddenly and unexpectedly, in the smoke-filled bar
- [Larry Kramer's "The Normal Heart" Beats Again](https://canadianjournalist.ca/larry-kramers-the-normal-heart-beats-again/) - By BRIAN BRENNANMay 2014 After almost 30 years of seeking Hollywood's attention, New York playwright Larry Kramer has finally gotten his wish. A film adaptation of his 1985 AIDS-crisis drama, The Normal Heart, will be shown Sun. May 25 on HBO in Canada and the United States. It stars Mark Ruffalo, Julia Roberts and Taylor Kitsch.
- [Man Booker International 2016 Longlist](https://canadianjournalist.ca/man-booker-international-2016-longlist/) - DEBORAH JONES March, 2016 Household, pseudonymous and new names are included on the longlist of 13 books in line for the prestigious Man Booker International Prize, released March 10. Contenders include Turkey's household name Orhan Pamuk; the ever-mysterious Italian, Elena Ferrante -- who writes under a pseudonym; South Korea's Han Kang; Indonesia's Eka Kurniawan; and Finland's Aki Ollikainen. The
- [Ron Hynes: the man of 1000 songs departs for Cryer’s Paradise](https://canadianjournalist.ca/the-man-of-a-thousand-songs-departs-for-a-cryers-paradise/) - GREG LOCKE St John’s, Newfoundland, November, 2015 Newfoundland singer-songwriter and musical legend, Ron Hynes, died Nov. 19. He was 64. In an ironic coincidence there was a power failure in downtown St John’s around the same time. Across the bar I heard someone say, “I guess Ron turned the lights out when he left.” Hynes' music
- [The Rankin Family](https://canadianjournalist.ca/the-rankin-family/) - Nothing - politicians, fame, or drunks - fazes this Canadian Celtic folk band, named group of the year at the 1993 Canadian Country Music Awards By DEBORAH JONESBADDECK, Nova Scotia, Canada 1993 It's late afternoon on a hot August day, and several members of The Rankin Family band are relaxing around a sidewalk table outside
- [REVIEW: Befuddled by Between](https://canadianjournalist.ca/review-befuddled-by-between/) - JOYCE THIERRY LLEWELLYN May, 2015 Oh, I could weep. Bottom line: it is damn hard work to get a television show produced. When a series makes it through the myriad bureaucratic and funding levels of initial idea pitch to script development and eventual production I want to send champagne and chocolate to the successful creator, producers,
- [Photographic manipulation: trickery, art, or illusionism?](https://canadianjournalist.ca/photographic-manipulation-trickery-art-or-illusionism/) - By Phillip George, The ConversationJune, 2015 The very act of picking up a camera and raising it to your eye to frame what lays before you is a form of photographic illusionism. What was it that made you reach for the camera in the first place? And what compelled you to frame one part of
- [Schiff sonatas score, Super Bowl blanked](https://canadianjournalist.ca/schiff-sonatas-score-super-bowl-blanked/) - ROD MICKLEBURGH February, 2016 The treasured Leila Getz, described in the program as “Head Honcho” of the Vancouver Recital Society, welcomed us with her usual enthusiasm. “Thank you for choosing András Schiff over the Super Bowl. The magic begins.” And indeed, it did. Moments later, the stately, 62-year old master pianist, wearing a knee-length black
- [Oxford dictionary update shows beauty of English](https://canadianjournalist.ca/oxford-dictionary-update-shows-beauty-of-english/) - ANNABELLE LUKIN July, 2016 The Oxford English Dictionary – the “OED” to its friends – has announced a 2016 update, consisting of over 1,000 new words and word meanings, along with the revision or expansion of over 2,000 entries. The revisions are not just new words or phrases, like “glamping”, “air-punching”, “sweary” and “budgie smugglers”.
- [On graffiti: art, vandalism, and advertising](https://canadianjournalist.ca/graffiti-as-art-or-vandalism-vs-advertising-rethinking-public-space/) - LIAM MILLER, University of QueenslandApril, 2015 Earlier this month, at the opening of an exhibition dedicated to his work at Brisbane’s Gallery of Modern Art, David Lynch got stuck into street art, calling it “ugly, stupid, and threatening.” Apparently, shooting movies can be very difficult when the building you want to film is covered in
- [Chinese "most-wanted" fugitive Lai Changxing deported from Canada](https://canadianjournalist.ca/chinese-most-wanted-fugitive-lai-ordered-deported/) - by Deborah JonesVANCOUVER, Canada, July 2011 A Canadian court cleared the way for China's most-wanted fugitive Lai Changxing to be sent home to face expected criminal charges. "The life of the applicant is in the Chinese Government's hands," ruled Judge Michel M.J. Shore of Canada’s Federal Court, citing a Chinese proverb. China earlier promised not
- [Canadian Court Expands Aboriginal Rights](https://canadianjournalist.ca/canadian-court-expands-aboriginal-rights/) - By Deborah JonesJune 26, 2014 Canada’s top court greatly expanded aboriginal rights in Canada’s westernmost province, in what may stand as a landmark decision affecting control of a vast swath of land and resources, in British Columbia and beyond. The case, Tsilhqot’in Nation v. British Columbia, was sparked in 1983 when the provincial government licenced
- [Are countries legally required to protect citizens from climate change?](https://canadianjournalist.ca/are-countries-legally-required-to-protect-citizens-from-climate-change/) - A Dutch court recently ruled that greenhouse gas reduction is a state obligation. Here’s what that could mean for the rest of the world. By Sophia V. Schweitzer, Ensia July, 2015 On June 24, 2015, a court in The Hague ordered the Dutch government to act faster in its duty to protect its citizens against the
- [Bosnia divided two decades after peace deal](https://canadianjournalist.ca/bosnia-divided-two-decades-after-peace-deal/) - By Daria Sito-Sucic November 21, 2015 SARAJEVO (Reuters) - A metal capsule containing over 20,000 wishes for the future was stored away in a Sarajevo museum on Saturday to mark the 20th anniversary of the peace deal that ended the Bosnian war but left the country deeply divided and dysfunctional. The anniversary passed with little
- [What Pantone's colors of 2016 mean for the future of design](https://canadianjournalist.ca/what-pantones-colors-of-2016-mean-for-the-future-of-design/) - RYAN RUSSELL Pennsylvania State University January, 2016 Pantone, the global authority on color standards for the design industries, recently announced its colors of the year for 2016: Rose Quartz and Serenity, which are muted shades of pink and blue, respectively. It’s the first time Pantone has chosen the blending of two shades instead of one (past
- [War photography shocked and sanitized, but changed little](https://canadianjournalist.ca/war-photography-shocked-and-sanitized-but-changed-little/) - By Jonathan Long, Durham University, The ConversationSeptember, 2014 Taken immediately after the ceasefire that ended the first Gulf War in 1991, Kenneth Jarecke’s photograph of the charred corpse of an Iraqi soldier in his burned-out jeep is one of the few memorable images of that conflict. Yet as a recent article in The Atlantic explains,
- [Court awards reporter-turned-politician damages, costs, in defamation case](https://canadianjournalist.ca/court-awards-reporter-turned-politician-200000-in-defamation-case/) - By Brian Brennan June 2016 An award-winning Canadian war correspondent who left television journalism to enter politics won a defamation lawsuit against Canada's largest newspaper publisher and one of its former columnists. Arthur Kent was awarded $200,000 in compensatory damages. Kent, who acquired the nickname "Scud Stud" while reporting for NBC News on Iraqi missile attacks
- [The Case of the Serial Killings](https://canadianjournalist.ca/the-case-of-the-serial-killings/) - The murders of dozens of women put Vancouver in the spotlight as gruesome details emerge in the mass-murder trial of an area pig farmer. By Deborah Jones (for Time magazine) Vancouver, Canada, January 26, 2007 Wedged between white-capped mountains and sparkling blue ocean, Vancouver is lauded for multicultural livability, ranked worldwide as a top travel
- [Not Guilty: Questions abound after Air India terrorism trial](https://canadianjournalist.ca/air-india-terrorism/) - Conflicts over nationalism linger in the Canadian-Sikh community, after not-guilty verdict in terrorism trial By Deborah Jones Vancouver, Canada, March 2005 The ruling by Judge Ian Bruce Josephson absolving two Sikh nationalists in the bombing of Air India Flight 182 divided the packed room in the Vancouver Law Courts: supporters of the accused
- [Ruling on Srebrenica may affect UN peacekeeping](https://canadianjournalist.ca/ruling-on-srebrenica-may-affect-un-peacekeeping/) - By Regina E Rauxloh, University of Southampton, The Conversation August 1, 2014 The Srebrenica massacre of July 1995 is one of the most horrendous atrocities of post-war European history. The mass killing of 7,000 to 8,000 Bosnian Muslims accompanied by the deportation of 25,000 to 30,000 civilians has been classified as genocide. One of the most
- [Reporter-turned-politician sues media giant for defamation](https://canadianjournalist.ca/reporter-turned-politician-sues-media-giant-for-defamation/) - By Brian Brennan December 2015 A long-running defamation lawsuit against Canada's largest newspaper publisher by an award-winning war correspondent who left journalism to enter provincial politics has concluded in Calgary, Alberta after a five-week trial. Court of Queens Bench justice Jo'Anne Strekaf reserved decision and said she would rule on the case of Arthur Kent versus Postmedia
- [Electric Cars New Company Workhorses](https://canadianjournalist.ca/electric-cars-now-company-workhorses/) - By Richard Brooks, Coventry University, The ConversationAugust, 2014 If press coverage is any measure, it appears that electric vehicles (EVs) have finally arrived. Tesla’s Model S was named Automobile Magazine’s Car of the Year, the Nissan Leaf is topping the EV sales ranks and the industry is abuzz with anticipated sales impact of BMW’s super-light i3. Yet for
- [EU Bids to Seal Canada trade Pact as US Prospects Dim](https://canadianjournalist.ca/eu-bids-to-seal-canada-trade-pact-as-us-prospects-dim/) - By Philip Blenkinsop and Tatiana Jancarikova September, 2016 BRATISLAVA (Reuters) - EU ministers took steps Sept. 23 to approve a contentious free trade deal with Canada, while France and Austria demanded that talks towards a similar agreement with the United States should stop. Both deals have triggered demonstrations by unions and protest groups who say
- [Default Settings: The Perils of Undischarged Public Debt](https://canadianjournalist.ca/default-settings-the-perils-of-undischarged-public-debt/) - By Brian BrennanPublished October 10, 2013 On October 17, 2013, the American government could enter unchartered territory. If Congressional Democrats and Republicans cannot agree on raising the statutory borrowing limit known as the “debt ceiling,” the government could be forced to default on its financial obligations. What would that mean for the rest of the
- [Canadians open first bitcoin ATM](https://canadianjournalist.ca/canadians-open-first-bitcoin-atm/) - By Deborah JonesVANCOUVER, Canada, October 29, 2013 Three young entrepreneurs opened an automated teller in this Western Canadian city, calling it the world’s first ATM able to exchange bitcoins for any official currency. The machine, delivered to Vancouver by Robocoin, an American manufacturer, stands against a wall of a popular coffee shop. It resembles an
- [Calls for G20 to act as fiscal, monetary policies falter](https://canadianjournalist.ca/calls-for-g20-to-act-as-fiscal-monetary-policies-falter/) - By Kevin Yao and David Lawder July 23, 2016 CHENGDU, China (Reuters) - Fiscal and monetary policies are becoming less effective at spurring economic activity so the world's leading economies need to increase coordination to promote sustainable growth, China's Finance Minister Lou Jiwei said on Saturday. Lou was speaking at the start of a meeting
- [Verbatim: Canada court blocks Zahra Kazemi suit against Iran](https://canadianjournalist.ca/verbatim-canada-court-blocks-zahra-kazemi-suit-against-iran/) - October 10, 2014 A lawsuit against Iran by the son of journalist Zahra Kazemi, who died after an alleged beating, rape and torture in an Iranian prison, hit a wall Friday in Canada's top court. The Supreme Court of Canada ruled that Kazemi's son Stephan Hachemi could not sue Iran's government and key officials for
- [In animation, anything is possible](https://canadianjournalist.ca/in-animation-anything-is-possible/) - By Deborah JonesVANCOUVER, Canada, 1995 The star of the adult cartoon The Pink Komkommer' is a woman snoozing in a rocker. A pot of tea steeps on a nearby table, and a cat and a caged bird look on as domesticity gives way to orgiastic dreams. Outsized, pulsating genitals and grotesque beasts undulate across the screen.
- [Lessons from Norway in getting women onto corporate boards](https://canadianjournalist.ca/lessons-from-norway-in-getting-women-onto-corporate-boards/) - By Cathrine Seierstad, Morten Huse, and Silvija Seres1, The ConversationMarch 8, 2015 It recently emerged that there were more men named John running large companies in the United States than women. Actually the U.S.S is about average when it comes to the percentage of women it has on boards – 19 per cent. Japan does badly
- [Laws and Lawsuits Highlight Global Risks for Airbnb](https://canadianjournalist.ca/laws-and-lawsuits-highlight-global-risks-for-airbnb/) - By Heather Somerville and Tina Bellon October, 2016 SAN FRANCISCO/BERLIN (Reuters) - Airbnb, the online lodging service that investors now believe is worth $30 billion, faces a reckoning. In eight years of torrid growth, the company has often clashed with local public officials seeking to minimize the impact of short-term rentals on neighborhoods and urban housing
- [Fly Me to the Moon](https://canadianjournalist.ca/fly-me-to-the-moon/) - Canadian entrepreneur Craig Dobbin built CHC Helicopter Corp. to become the biggest in the world.
- [Global oil industry slipping into the red](https://canadianjournalist.ca/global-oil-industry-slipping-into-the-red/) - by Ron Bousso, Karolin Schaps and Anna Driver October, 2015 By Ron Bousso, Karolin Schaps and Anna Driver LONDON/HOUSTON (Reuters) - The oil sector is slipping into the red after years of fat profits as the steep slump in oil prices shows little sign of ending, with this quarter shaping up to be the worst
- [Alberta once again the New Jerusalem](https://canadianjournalist.ca/alberta-has-once-again-become-the-new-jerusalem/) - By Brian Brennan May 6, 2015 In 1971, the year the now irrelevant Progressive Conservative party first rose to power in Alberta, a Canadian folk-pop group from Montreal called The Bells had a million-selling hit titled "Stay Awhile." It stayed in the American Top 50 for 11 weeks. The last line of the chorus went, "guess I'm
- [Canadian magazine lit fuse for Occupy Wall Street protest](https://canadianjournalist.ca/canadian-magazine-lit-fuse-for-occupy-wall-street-protest/) - by Deborah JonesVANCOUVER, Canada, October 2011 Protests against corporate power in the United States began in the basement of an old house in Vancouver, behind massive trees, down wooden stairs, past a box of soup cans for recycling, at the world headquarters of Adbusters magazine. Last July the counter-culture magazine, known for campaigns like "buy
- [Canada's Famous Five would be proud](https://canadianjournalist.ca/canadas-famous-five-would-be-proud/) - By Penney KomeMay, 2015 “What’s going on?” asked the woman in the family piling out of their car with wading gear for the youngsters on a hot day, heading for the wading pools in front of the Alberta Legislature’s great domed and columned building. “Why is there a crowd?” “They’re swearing in Rachel Notley as
- [Fort McMurray: Boom, bust ... burned](https://canadianjournalist.ca/boom-bust-burned/) - By Rod Nickel and Liz Hampton May 7, 2016 CONKLIN/LAC LA BICHE, Alberta (Reuters) - A convoy of evacuees from the Canadian oil town of Fort McMurray drove through the heart of a massive wildfire guided by police and military helicopters as they sought to reach safety to the south of the burning city.
- [Journalism Underpinned New York's ban on Fracking](https://canadianjournalist.ca/journalism-underpinned-new-yorks-ban-on-fracking/) - Careful, evidence-based journalism underpinned New York’s decision Wednesday to ban fracking in the state. This story by the not-for-profit investigative news room ProPublica provides the back story of the state governor’s announcement. Fracking — the technique of fracturing underground rock by piping in hydraulically pressurized liquid – has boosted oil and gas extraction around the world. The
- [International law fails to protect journalists from savagery](https://canadianjournalist.ca/international-law-fails-to-protect-journalists-from-savagery/) - By Carmen Draghici, City University LondonAugust, 2014 The vicious execution of US journalist James Foley by militants of the Islamic State deepens the concern that international law and diplomacy may be ill-equipped to address crimes against media workers reporting from conflict zones. The video depicting the decapitation and cautioning Barack Obama to end military operations
- [NOTEBOOK: a bellwether election for Alberta?](https://canadianjournalist.ca/notebook-a-bellwether-election-for-alberta/) - May 5, 2015 Could Alberta become a bellwether for politics in North America's oil patch? Alberta citizens vote in a provincial election today. Alberta -- world famous as home of the oil sands -- has been ruled by the Progressive Conservative party for more than four decades, and it is the base of Canada's hard-right
- [Trudeau topples Harper in stunning Canadian election](https://canadianjournalist.ca/trudeau-topples-harper-in-stunning-canadian-election/) - By Randall Palmer and Rod Nickel October 19, 2015 MONTREAL/CALGARY (Reuters) - Canada's Liberal leader Justin Trudeau rode a late campaign surge to a stunning election victory on Monday, toppling Prime Minister Stephen Harper's Conservatives with a promise of change and returning a touch of glamour, youth and charisma to Ottawa. The Liberals seized a
- [What Edward Snowden said to European Parliamentarians](https://canadianjournalist.ca/what-edward-snowden-said-to-european-parliamentarians/) - By Deborah JonesPublished March 8, 2014 Europe on Friday released American whistle-blower Edward Snowden's written responses to questions by members of the European Parliament. The 12-page document, in English as a pdf, is here. Snowden, a former contractor to the United States National Security Agency (NSA), limited his testimony to information he already released to
- [VERBATIM: The prescriptive Happiness Report](https://canadianjournalist.ca/verbatim-the-prescriptive-happiness-report/) - The recently released World Happiness Report 2015 both describes and prescribes. The people of Togo and Burundi and Syria and Benin and Rwanda are the unhappiest people in the world, and the people of Switzerland and Iceland and Denmark and Norway and Canada are the happiest. The unhappy, however, can change their circumstances, by emulating
- [Verbatim: The Doomsday Clock ticks closer to disaster](https://canadianjournalist.ca/verbatim-the-doomsday-clock-ticks-closer-to-disaster/) - January 23, 2015 Scientists, including 17 Nobel laureates, this week moved the minute hand of their terrible Doomsday Clock two minutes ahead, as they urged world leaders to defuse nuclear and climate-change threats to the world and humanity. We humans have, metaphorically, just three minutes to get our act together, they warn. The decision on the
- [Verbatim: Court allows assisted suicide in Canada](https://canadianjournalist.ca/verbatim-court-allows-assisted-suicide-in-canada/) - By F&OFebruary 6, 2015 Canadian physicians in Canada will be legally allowed to assist some patients to die, the Supreme Court of Canada ruled Friday. The ruling affects those with "a grievous and irremediable medical condition that causes enduring and intolerable suffering," throws out Canada's Criminal Code law prohibiting assisted suicide, which it ruled is
- [Daniel Pauly: In a few decades, there will be no fish](https://canadianjournalist.ca/daniel-pauly-predict-in-a-few-decades-there-will-be-no-fish/) - By Deborah JonesVANCOUVER, Canada, 2005 From his separation from his mother as a toddler in postwar France, to his deprived childhood as a live-in servant in Switzerland, to his recent winning of a prestigious Japanese award, Daniel Pauly's life is like a Dickensian tale writ large. For years, the Vancouver-based marine biologist has worked on the devastation of
- [Does deep Atlantic heating account for global warming hiatus?](https://canadianjournalist.ca/does-deep-atlantic-heating-account-for-global-warming-hiatus/) - By Richard Allan, University of Reading, The ConversationAugust 21, 2014 There seem to have been a dozen or so explanations for why the Earth’s surface has warmed at a slower rate over the past 15 years compared to earlier decades. This is perhaps not so surprising given the complexity of the climate system – the world’s best
- [Daylight savings linked to injuries, heart attacks](https://canadianjournalist.ca/daylight-savings-linked-to-injuries-heart-attacks/) - By David A. Ellis, Lancaster University October, 2015 It is estimated that more than 1.5 billion people across the world are exposed to changes brought about by Daylight Savings Time (DST). While the clocks on most digital devices update automatically, transitions into and out of DST can be difficult for us humans. And a number of
- [Anting -- a Science brief](https://canadianjournalist.ca/anting-a-science-brief/) - by Deborah JonesJuly 9, 2014 In summer it's common to find a bird flattened on the ground, wings splayed. It may seem injured, but will roust if approached -- and when the interruption is over, return with the determination of a junkie seeking a fix, to sprawl on the same spot. Look closely -- a telephoto
- [Your Smart Home Knows a Lot About You](https://canadianjournalist.ca/your-smart-home-knows-a-lot-about-you/) - by Lauren Kirchner, ProPublica October 2015 How much does your smart home know about you? That was the question that Charles Givre, a data scientist at Booz Allen Hamilton, set out to answer in a recent experiment. Givre has an account on Wink, a platform designed to control, from a single screen, his Internet-connected home
- [Humans naturally nasty? Research suggests not](https://canadianjournalist.ca/humans-naturally-nasty-research-suggests-not/) - Research shows that human "morality" is grounded in science. Whether our societies can transcend tribal affiliations is another matter. By Deborah Jones February 2012 Vancouver, Canada (AFP) -- Biological research increasingly debunks the view of humanity as competitive, aggressive and brutish, says biologist and author Frans de Waal. “Humans have a lot of pro-social tendencies,” said de
- [Human survival in danger zone, study confirms](https://canadianjournalist.ca/human-survival-in-danger-zone-study-confirms/) - By James Dyke, University of SouthamptonJanuary 16, 2015 The Earth’s climate has always changed. All species eventually become extinct. But a new study has brought into sharp relief the fact that humans have, in the context of geological timescales, produced near instantaneous planetary-scale disruption. We are sowing the seeds of havoc on the Earth, it
- [Germ Warfare](https://canadianjournalist.ca/germ-warfare-2/) - By Deborah JonesVANCOUVER, Canada, 1995 In the war between germs and antibiotics, this much is no longer in doubt: eventually, bacteria win every battle. The only question is: how long can the cavalry keep arriving with new drugs? Forget plague in India. Forget, if you can, the so-called flesh-eating streptococcus that cost (federal Canadian) Opposition leader
- [Honey? Honey? Where are you?](https://canadianjournalist.ca/honey-honey-where-are-you/) - Whats killing the bees and finding the source of CCD or Colony Collapse Disorder by Greg Locke © 2013
- [Greenpeace at 40](https://canadianjournalist.ca/greenpeace-at-40/) - By Deborah JonesVANCOUVER, Canada, 2011 A simple phone call about dead sea otters washing up on the shores of Alaska after United States nuclear tests led to the birth of environmental organization Greenpeace four decades ago. Irving Stowe and his wife, Dorothy, were so outraged by the news that they launched a petition from their
- [Fishing subsidies are emptying oceans](https://canadianjournalist.ca/fishing-subsidies-are-emptying-oceans/) - Rashid Sumaila, University of British Columbia October, 2015 Fish numbers are rapidly dwindling globally, and fishery subsidies are one of the key drivers behind this decline. In 2009, these subsidies totalled about US$35 billion, creating incentives for fishers around the world to increase their catch. But this short-term “race to fish” is jeopardising the long-term
- [Honeybees being killed by a manmade pandemic](https://canadianjournalist.ca/honeybees-being-killed-by-a-manmade-pandemic/) - By Stephen John Martin, University of Salford February, 2016 We live in a world where large numbers of people are connected by just a few degrees of separation. But while having friends of friends all over the globe can be great for holidays, trade and networking, travel also allows viruses to move like never before. Zika
- [Evolutionary insights underscore need for new natural-world taxonomy](https://canadianjournalist.ca/evolutionary-insights-underscore-need-for-a-new-animal-kingdom-taxonomy/) - Two British academics champion a taxonomy alternative to Linnaeus.
- [Drilling for Certainty: The Latest in Fracking Health Studies](https://canadianjournalist.ca/drilling-for-certainty-the-latest-in-fracking-health-studies/) - The Latest in Fracking Health Studies
- [Calm, cool and collected: Catherine Callbeck](https://canadianjournalist.ca/calm-cool-and-collected-catherine-callbeck/) - Catherine Callbeck, the first woman to be elected premier of a Canadian province, comes from a world where hard work and attention to duty count for more than easy sound bites -- and a lack of charisma may be an asset. By Deborah JonesSUMMERSIDE, Prince Edward Island, Canada, 1993 As dusk and a soft rain settle over
- [Kings of the Ranch](https://canadianjournalist.ca/kings-of-the-ranch/) - By Brian Brennan April , 2016 This month a historic cattle ranch was added to a major conservation site in the foothills of the Canadian Rockies, drawing renewed media attention to the two eccentric brothers who originally owned the ranch. Although they saw the property appreciate in value to an estimated $6 million during the 60 years
- [On reading and writing our winters away](https://canadianjournalist.ca/winterize-yourself-read-write-compose-sing/) - John Mason Neale's O come, O come Emmanuel permits a hopeful anticipation of winter's arrival.
- [Ray Guy 1939 - 2013](https://canadianjournalist.ca/ray-guy-1939-2013/) - Ray Guy 1939 - 2013 Ray Guy goes to That Far Greater Bay By Greg LockeST. JOHN'S, Newfoundland May, 2013 Ray Guy has gone to That Far Greater Bay. The news that, at age 74, he passed on came as a shock around here. Not that it was unexpected; we knew Ray had been very
- [LOTTA HITSCHMANOVA:  Canada's 'Mother Teresa' with attitude](https://canadianjournalist.ca/lotta-hitschmanova-canadas-mother-teresa-with-attitude/) - The author would appreciate a contribution, at least equal to the coffee you might enjoy while reading the column below, to help fund her ongoing work and pay for this site. Click on paypal.me/ThierryLlewellyn to be taken to her personal PayPal page. By Joyce Thierry Llewellyn December, 2014 In 1973, Dr. Lotta Hitschmanova, founder and
- [JUSTIN TRUDEAU: vows change, hope as Canada PM](https://canadianjournalist.ca/justin-trudeau-vows-change-hope-as-canada-pm/) - By Leah Schnurr October 19, 2015 OTTAWA (Reuters) - Canada's new prime minister, Justin Trudeau, is moving back to the house where he grew up. The Liberal leader, son of former prime minister Pierre Trudeau, led his party to victory in a federal election on Monday, defeating Stephen Harper's Conservatives by a wide margin. While
- [Bragging rights on snow](https://canadianjournalist.ca/bragging-rights-on-snow/) - What is the difference between God and a ski instructor? God doesn't want to be a ski instructor. Students in Level One of the Canadian Ski Instructors Alliance, however, very much do -- or at least earn the badge. By Deborah Jones WHISTLER, British Columbia, Canada, 2006 Whistler Mountain opened on a recent morning
- [Book excerpt -- Great Bear Wild: Dispatches from a Northern Rainforest](https://canadianjournalist.ca/book-excerpt-great-bear-wild-dispatches-from-a-northern-rainforest/) - Great Bear Wild, a book of observations and photographs, and a video (see below), is the latest project by Ian McAllister, conservationist, photographer, and 25-year resident of the Great Bear Rainforest on Canada's West Coast. He describes it as "a deeply personal journey from the headwaters of the region’s unexplored river valleys down to the hidden depths
- [Bison on the prairie, a conservation success story](https://canadianjournalist.ca/bison-on-the-prairie-a-conservation-success-story/) - By Todd Reubold, Ensia August, 2015 From rhinos to #CecilTheLion, we live in a world where stories of species loss and illegal wildlife trade dominate the conservation headlines, so a good news story every now and then is a welcome surprise. Three years ago, 63 bison originally from Yellowstone National Park left a quarantine facility just
- [A whale for the taking](https://canadianjournalist.ca/a-whale-for-the-taking/) - When dead whales wash up in Newfoundland's small fishing villages the battle over who owns and who can do what with them begins. Story and pictures by Greg Locke in Woody Point, Newfoundland.
- [A Whale for the taking - Part 2](https://canadianjournalist.ca/a-whale-for-the-taking-part-2/) - The death of the blues, though, came as a shock, said biologist Andrew Trites of the University of British Columbia. Scientists are pondering the repercussions of losing nine members of an endangered North Atlantic population of a mere 250 adults - fewer whales in an entire vast ocean than there are people in the smallest of villages.
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Swept away: beaches, dunes and wharves pulled out to sea.](https://canadianjournalist.ca/
swept-away-beaches-dunes-and-wharves-pulled-out-to-sea/) - By Charles MandelCHARLOTTETOWN, Prince Edward Island, Canada. April, 2005 Visitors to Prince Edward Island who return after being away for a while may be in for a shock. Some of the scenic spots on the tiny province's coastline are changing beyond recognition. At Basin Head, one of the Island's world-renowned beaches, the wharves have been
- ["Heart and soul" of HMS Erebus revived](https://canadianjournalist.ca/heart-and-soul-of-hms-erebus-revived/) - November 6, 2014 Canada's government released images today of the bell from HMS Erebus, the doomed ship from Britain's legendary Franklin Expedition, found in Nunavut territory in September. Erebus was named after the Greek god of darkness, whose sire is Chaos. (You might have thought the name would give them pause.) Erebus and her sister ship HMS Terror acquired their
- [Beyond Lassie: seeking dogs to protect livestock, and predators](https://canadianjournalist.ca/beyond-lassie-seeking-dogs-to-protect-livestock-and-predators/) - By Ben Goldfarb, for Ensia and High Country News May 1, 2015 On a bright fall morning in central Washington, United States, a flock of sheep, the off-white of dirty snow, moves across an emerald field of timothy. To the flock’s west, Daniel Kinka and Cafer Tepeli scrutinize the sheep through binoculars. Somewhere to the east, obscured
- ['Smeary' Lake Erie -- progress, and setbacks](https://canadianjournalist.ca/smeary-lake-erie-progress-and-setbacks/) - The Great Lakes are no longer a dumping ground for industrial pollution. But farm run-off, aquatic invaders and climate change are once again putting fish and clean water in jeopardy By Brian Bienkowski, Environmental Health News March, 2016 EAST LANSING, Michigan—When Dr. Suess wrote his iconic children’s book "The Lorax" in 1971, he took
- [How to make seal flipper pie](https://canadianjournalist.ca/how-to-make-seal-flipper-pie/) - How to make seal flipper pie By Greg Locke April, 2015 Goulds, Newfoundland -- The spring seal hunting season opens this week on Canada’s Atlantic coast with hunters and fishermen from Newfoundland, Labrador, Quebec and the Maritime provinces heading out onto the sea ice to hunt seals. Don’t worry folks, contrary to the fundraising lies
- [Frack fluids can migrate to aquifers within years, study predicts](https://canadianjournalist.ca/frack-fluids-can-migrate-to-aquifers-within-years-study-predicts/) - by Abrahm Lustgarten, ProPublicaMay 1, 2012 A new study has raised fresh concerns about the safety of gas drilling in the Marcellus Shale, concluding that fracking chemicals injected into the ground could migrate toward drinking water supplies far more quickly than experts have previously predicted. More than 5,000 wells were drilled in the Marcellus
- [Earthprints: Toronto's Leslie Street Spit](https://canadianjournalist.ca/earthprints-torontos-leslie-street-spit/) - Leading up to the UN Climate Conference in Paris in December, Reuters has a series of photo-essays titled “Earthprints,” each installment aiming to "show the ability of humans to impact change on the landscape of the planet," accompanied with NASA satellite images showing the scale of the change. Here, F&O presents an urban photo-essay from Canada, featuring the Leslie Street Spit in Toronto, Ontario. Story
- [Fort McMurray: from "black pitch" and salt to oil sands](https://canadianjournalist.ca/fort-mcmurray-from-black-pitch-and-salt-to-oil-sands/) - By Brian Brennan May 7, 2016 The story of Fort McMurray is one of long hibernation followed by rapid growth. The oilsands developments turned it from a sleepy little northern frontier town into Alberta’s most explosive boom city. But it took almost two centuries for the development to happen. The boom had been foretold
- [Emily Dickinson's garden, "native" plants, and climate change](https://canadianjournalist.ca/emily-dickinsons-garden-native-plants-and-climate-change/) - The fate of a tree planted at poet Emily Dickinson's home raises questions about whether gardeners can — or should — play a role in helping plant species migrate in the face of rising temperatures and swiftly changing botanical zones. by Janet Marinelli June, 2016 On rare occasions, the townsfolk of Amherst, Massachusetts, would catch
- [Hunting, fishing, farming biggest threats to wildlife](https://canadianjournalist.ca/hunting-fishing-farming-biggest-threats-to-wildlife/) - By Sean Maxwell, The University of Queensland; James Watson, The University of Queensland, and Richard Fuller, The University of Queensland August 13, 2016 History might judge the Paris climate agreement to be a watershed for all humanity. If nations succeed in halting runaway climate change, this will have enormous positive implications for life on Earth. Yet
- [Climbing rocks on The Rock](https://canadianjournalist.ca/climbing-rocks-on-the-rock/) - Photo essay from the 2013 Flatrock Climbing Festival in Flatrock, Newfoundland. Canada. Photography by Greg Locke © 2013
- [Berlin 1989](https://canadianjournalist.ca/berlin-1989/) - Photo essay Greg Locke from the night the Berlin Wall fell and the Brandenburg gate opened in 1989.
- [Ignorance of science worsens global crises, warn researchers](https://canadianjournalist.ca/ignorance-of-science-worsens-global-crises-warn-researchers/) - Science under siege from censorship, religious beliefs and poor education By Deborah JonesFebruary, 2012 Science is “under siege,” the world’s top scientists and educators heard repeatedly at a major science conference of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Scientific solutions are needed to help solve global crises - including food and water shortages, disease
- [Killer highway](https://canadianjournalist.ca/killer-highway/) - Canada's demonic and blissful Sea to Sky By Deborah JonesSQUAMISH, British Columbia, Canada. March 2001 This morning, the "Killer Highway" of British Columbia looks harmless. Blissful, even. Dawn creeps across Sea to Sky country as I drive south from Whistler to Vancouver. Hoar frost sparkles on winter-bare trees and the sunrise reflects dazzlingly off the mountain
- [Mad descents](https://canadianjournalist.ca/mad-descents/) - Some claim that extreme downhill mountain biking is becoming mainstream. They're nuts. By Deborah JonesNorth Vancouver, British Columbia, 2006 The start of Espresso, a gnarly mountain-bike trail on British Columbia's famous North Shore, is unimposing. Bikers -- and these are ''bikers,'' whose body armor and monstrous downhill machines make other cyclists seem effete -- start each run
- [In Northern Canada's Peaks, Scientists Track Impact of Vanishing Ice](https://canadianjournalist.ca/in-northern-canadas-peaks-scientists-track-impact-of-vanishing-ice/) - By Ed Struzik, Yale Environment 360September, 2015 In the summer of 1955, a floatplane flew a small group of American climbers to the edge of a massive icefield straddling the Continental Divide along the Yukon/Northwest Territories border in northern Canada. When the group saw the cluster of jagged peaks and sheer rock walls they were searching for,
- [The haunted painting of Sir John Franklin's ship](https://canadianjournalist.ca/the-haunted-painting-of-sir-john-franklins-ship/) - By Laura MacCulloch, Royal Holloway At Royal Holloway College at the University of London, Edwin Landseer’s picture Man Proposes, God Disposes (1864) is covered by a Union Flag every year during exams. Not because of any fears of cheating during history exams but because students believe they will fail their exams (or even go mad) if
- [Public Health Crucial for Urbanized World](https://canadianjournalist.ca/public-health-crucial-for-urbanized-world/) - Concentrated populations are often seen as a boon for the environment because resources can be easily shared. But so can pathogens. How can cities discourage infectious disease? By Nate Berg July 30, 2016 Near the corner of Broadwick and Lexington in London’s Soho neighborhood, a single spot on the ground has influenced more than 150
- [No home for the Flower Children](https://canadianjournalist.ca/no-home-for-the-flower-children/) - For decades, the southern shoreline of Vancouver Island was the idyllic home to social misfits, free spirits and unreconstructed hippies. And then the government started sending eviction notices. By Deborah JonesSombrio Beach, British Columbia, Canada 1997 WHEN Mike Callaway arrived on this remote beach 15 years ago, he just wanted time to recover from the painful break-up
- [Whales with a Dam Problem](https://canadianjournalist.ca/whales-with-a-dam-problem/) - Orcas in the Pacific Northwest are struggling to boost their numbers. Could dams have something to do with it? By Chelsey B. Coombs March, 2016 At this time of year, America's Lower 48's only resident population of killer whales heads to the mouth of the Columbia River and feasts on their favorite food, Chinook salmon. The
- [Welcome to Iceberg Alley](https://canadianjournalist.ca/welcome-to-iceberg-alley-2/) - photo essay on icebergs from glaciers in Greenland and Canadian arctic as travel south to Newfoundland in the north west Atlantic ocean. By Greg Locke. © 2013
- [Verbatim: Climate change to cause food shortages, mass extinctions, flooding](https://canadianjournalist.ca/verbatim-climate-change-to-cause-food-shortages-mass-extinctions-flooding/) - WHAT: Climate change caused by humans will result in food shortages, mass extinctions and flooding, warns the world body of climate experts in its most comprehensive report yet, signed in Bonn on November 2, 2014. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change says the science is now 95 per cent conclusive, that today’s climate change is
- [Undersea Mining: scientists race to the bottom first](https://canadianjournalist.ca/undersea-mining-scientists-race-to-the-bottom-first/) - By Brooke Jarvis March, 2016 Picture a map of the world. Maybe you’re imagining a political map, with colorful nations interlocking like puzzle pieces. Or maybe you see yellow deserts, green splashes of forest, and wrinkled mountain ranges. Either way, your mind’s eye is likely busy with the parts of the planet that rise above
- [UN agency adds cultural treasures to 'intangibles' list](https://canadianjournalist.ca/the-intangibles-of-unescos-heritage/) - Five photographs illustrate a short story on cultural-practices announcement from UNESCO.
- [There are terrible forces at work in Nepal](https://canadianjournalist.ca/there-are-terrible-forces-at-work-in-nepal/) - By Renee ComesottiApril/May 2015 KATHMANDU, Nepal — The world media is awash in images of death and devastation in Nepal. It’s an oddly schizophrenic experience to be ‘watching’ the current crisis from the dual perspectives of participant and observer — both on the ground and over the Internet. That’s life in a disaster zone in the
- [The Vikings are coming, the Vikings are coming!](https://canadianjournalist.ca/the-vikings-are-coming-the-vikings-are-coming/) - Norse and viking enthusiasts celebrate 1000 years since the Norse arrival in North America at Lanse aux Meadows, Newfoundand. Canada
- [World Indigenous Games](https://canadianjournalist.ca/world-indigenous-games/) - By Ueslei Marcelino, Reuters October-November, 2015 Ahead of the Summer Olympics in 2016, Brazil is host to a new international event - the World Indigenous Games, with contests including a hockey-like game using a ball of fire. Competitors from ethnic groups in Brazil, also from as far afield as New Zealand and the Philippines, take
- [World and War](https://canadianjournalist.ca/world-and-war/) - DEBORAH JONES: FREE RANGE August 4, 2014 Every person who fought in World War I is now dead - and yet no one alive today is unaffected. The war consumed much of the globe for, arguably, decades. Many contend that the unresolved conflicts of the "Great War" re-ignited to become the conflagration we call World War
- [Wolves as ecosystem engineers](https://canadianjournalist.ca/wolves-as-ecosystem-engineers/) - Red Riding Hood and the Three Little Pigs have a lot to answer for: thanks partly to fairy tales, wolves have a ghastly and global reputation as big and bad, terrorists of young girls and small pigs, good for nothing but their pelts. But science offers redemption — and one fair wolf tale can be found in Yellowstone National Park in the western United States, where wolves were exterminated early in the 20th Century then, two decades ago, reintroduced by conservationists. The result has been a startling transformation but, alas, it’s still a tale without an end.
- [The Tree](https://canadianjournalist.ca/3912-2/) - DEBORAH JONES: FREE RANGE Published January 15, 2014 We knew the tree as an insect haven, a woodpecker station, a squirrel highway, and a perch for raccoons. She held our clothesline, and lent us her leaves for summer shade and winter compost. The cherry, planted more than a century ago in one of the first European
- [911: Good, Evil, and Other](https://canadianjournalist.ca/911-2/) - DEBORAH JONES: FREE RANGE Published Sept. 15, 2001 One by one, 34 great silver birds, blown off-course by Tuesday's American catastrophe, alight. One by one, 6,000 travellers emerge, to fill Vancouver International Airport with a babel of languages and a multicoloured polyglot of nationalities. In the wake of the terrorist hijackings and destruction, it has become
- [A Rob Ford nation](https://canadianjournalist.ca/a-rob-ford-nation/) - What does a national and international obsession with the bizarre mayor of its biggest city say about Canada?
- ["Cause marketing" not clear as a bell](https://canadianjournalist.ca/cause-marketing-not-clear-as-a-bell/) - DEBORAH JONES: FREE RANGE February 6, 2016 I just donated a few dollars to my local schizophrenia support charity. I should do so more often, knowing that we’re all, directly or indirectly, affected by mental illnesses. I don’t, though. It’s one of too many issues clamouring for scarce attention and funds. Kudos for the reminder,
- [One Canadian soldier](https://canadianjournalist.ca/one-canadian-soldier/) - DEBORAH JONES: FREE RANGE Published: April 3, 2006, Time Magazine On March 29, 2006, in a firefight with Taliban insurgents, Private Robert Costall became the 12th Canadian killed in the Afghanistan mission. When the news slammed home, tears filled my eyes, and I turned to my family photographs. I impulsively touched the pictures of my elder son
- [Seamus Heaney: R.I.P.](https://canadianjournalist.ca/seamus-heaney-r-i-p/) - Seamus Heaney reminded us of the luminous souls amongst us
- [If slaughterhouses had glass walls ...](https://canadianjournalist.ca/if-slaughterhouses-had-glass-walls/) - DEBORAH JONES: FREE RANGE June, 2015 “If slaughterhouses had glass walls, we would all be vegetarian,” Paul McCartney famously said. There are no walls in the alleys that served as slaughterhouses in Yulin, China. Yulin celebrated its annual Dog Meat Festival in June, and the world watched as some 10,000 of “man’s best friends” crowded
- [Out of Time: Daylight (Saving) Delusions](https://canadianjournalist.ca/out-of-time-daylight-saving-delusions/) - “How did it get so late so soon?” ― Dr. Seuss DEBORAH JONES: FREE RANGE March 13, 2016 A cycle of storms slammed the Pacific Northwest, where I live, during the spring change to “daylight saving” time. Gales uprooted trees, tore down power lines, smashed buildings, crushed cars, killed at least two people and left hundreds of
- [Orcas condemned to die](https://canadianjournalist.ca/orcas-condemned-to-die/) - DEBORAH JONES: FREE RANGE July, 2002 (originally published by the Toronto Globe and Mail.) The tale of Springer, the spunky orphaned orca, has the superficial tenderness of a Disney flick. Below the surface, however, lurks a film noir: Just what is causing so many killer whales, Springer's mother among them, to disappear from the waters
- [Death with Dignity](https://canadianjournalist.ca/death-with-dignity/) - DEBORAH JONES: FREE RANGEPublished August 15, 2013 Two dogs who shared my home for 13 years lived a dog’s life and - more to the point - died a dog’s death. When Corrie and Morag came to live with me as roly-poly Scottish rough-haired collie pups, their glossy fur was as soft as a butterfly’s
- [Far from Flanders Fields](https://canadianjournalist.ca/far-from-flanders-fields/) - A Remembrance Day musing on war, Canadian poet John McCrae and his poem, In Flanders Fields.
- [Ferguson's Damned Details](https://canadianjournalist.ca/fergusons-damned-details/) - DEBORAH JONES: FREE RANGE November 25, 2014 Ferguson, Missouri, burst into flames after Monday night's announcement that a grand jury found no cause to indict police officer Darren Wilson in the shooting death of teenager Michael Brown on August 9. Some 700 National Guard troops were immediately summoned, with 2,200 reinforcements added Tuesday, to quell rioting. As many words
- [Canada's strategic, desperate, election: Anybody But Conservative](https://canadianjournalist.ca/canadas-strategic-desperate-election-anybody-but-conservative/) - The shambles of Canada's democracy, and paralysis in the face of existential economic, environmental and civil threats to the country I call home, drove me from being a lifelong, carefully non-participatory journalist observer of politics, into activism during this federal election. I signed, for the first time in my career, public petitions: with other artists and writers and also with other journalists against Canada's draconian
- [Canada's National Aboriginal Day](https://canadianjournalist.ca/canadas-national-aboriginal-day/) - DEBORAH JONES: FREE RANGE June 21, 2016 It's fitting that today, on Canada's 20th National Aboriginal Day, Historica Canada released a new Heritage Minute video about the death of a young man. It tells the story of Chanie "Charlie" Wenjack. Historica Canada, the non-profit organization that produces Heritage Minutes, noted that his death sparked the first inquest into the
- [The most beautiful commute: a ferry tale](https://canadianjournalist.ca/the-most-beautiful-commute-a-ferry-tale/) - By Jason Reed December, 2015 On the ferries that crisscross Sydney's harbour, passengers sit inside hunched over their smartphones, often ignoring the gorgeous scenery afforded by what some describe as the world's most beautiful commute. The arrival in 1788 of British Captain Arthur Phillip's 11 convict ships in Sydney Cove and subsequent discovery of a
- [Seafarer's Pilgrimage](https://canadianjournalist.ca/seafarers-pilgrimage/) - CLODAGH KILCOYNE July, 2016 It is said that people don't come home for Christmas to the small western Irish village of Carna, they come back for St. MacDara's Day. On that day, every July 16, hundreds make a pilgrimage off the coast of Gaelic-speaking Carna to tiny, uninhabited St. MacDara's Island, to a celebration of
- [Remembrance](https://canadianjournalist.ca/remembrance/) - From the archives of Facts and Opinions, 2013-2016: On November 11, 1918, the guns of World War I fell silent on the Western Front. The end of the Great War was, so many participants swore, surely the end of all wars. That was, of course, hubris. Still, November 11 has become the day, in
- [Pipeline protest](https://canadianjournalist.ca/pipeline/) - November, 2014 Throughout the autumn citizens including First Nations peoples, politicians, and visitors from other countries, trekked up Burnaby Mountain to protest a proposed expansion of Kinder Morgan's Trans Mountain pipeline. Trans Mountain delivers bitumen from Alberta's oil sands through British Columbia to a port on Canada's west coast, for transfer to tankers shipping it refineries in Asia. The
- [My Nonna's last months](https://canadianjournalist.ca/my-nonnas-last-months/) - By Gaia Squarci August, 2016 My grandmother's life and mine overlapped for 27 years. I always called her "Nonna." Our age difference and profoundly contrasting values and way of thinking did not prevent us from developing a strong bond and a relationship punctuated by mischievous games and moments of tenderness and humor. We were amused
- [Mummers the Word](https://canadianjournalist.ca/mummers-the-word/) - Slide show and audio from the Mummers Festival in St. John's, Newfoundland. Canada.
- [Little Stephen in the Land of Oz](https://canadianjournalist.ca/little-stephen-in-the-land-of-oz/) - Australia elects a leader in the mold of Canada's, driven by fossil fuel extraction.
- [We’re all in this together](https://canadianjournalist.ca/were-all-in-this-together/) - “We must all hang together, or assuredly we shall all hang separately” -- Benjamin Franklin CHRIS WOOD: NATURAL SECURITYPublished January 1, 2014 Here’s a thought as we enter a new year: We’re all in this together. That is not a moral sentiment. Nor is it the wooly-headed utopiate of some bleeding-heart liberal. In fact, it
- [Water: Pipes and prices make a bigger difference than ‘human rights'](https://canadianjournalist.ca/water-pipes-and-prices-make-a-bigger-difference-than-human-rights/) - CHRIS WOOD: NATURAL SECURITYPublished February 7, 2014 Images are traveling the internet contrasting the amount of snow that usually dusts the California mountains at this time of year with the amount strikingly not there now. For the first time in its 54-year history, the agency in charge of the aqueducts that made the desert state
- [What’s a World Worth? We now have a very precise idea.](https://canadianjournalist.ca/whats-a-world-worth-we-now-have-a-very-precise-idea/) - CHRIS WOOD: NATURAL SECURITYPublished May 31, 2014 If you have ever spent a night under the canopy of stars undimmed by city lights, in a place where the only sounds are those unmade by man that have whispered and lapped and knocked and called out through the dark hours in that place since the last
- [Who Are the Hypocrites on Lima’s Carbon Footprint?](https://canadianjournalist.ca/who-are-the-hypocrite-on-limas-carbon-footprint/) - CHRIS WOOD: NATURAL SECURITY November, 2014 The charge of hypocrisy, let’s be clear about it, is deeply hypocritical. The argument turns up regularly. To paraphrase this week’s example: the people who released all those greenhouse gasses to get together in Peru for the 20th Conference of the Parties (COP) to the United Nations Framework Convention
- [The Shakedown of the Century?](https://canadianjournalist.ca/the-shakedown-of-the-century/) - Oil rig spudding a new well near Vermilion, Alberta.
- [Triage: learning to say goodbye](https://canadianjournalist.ca/triage-learning-to-say-goodbye/) - CHRIS WOOD: NATURAL SECURITY August 1, 2014 I shared breakfast recently with a bunch of other guys over 60. With the disinterest of age they surveyed the state of the planet and to a man expressed relief that they were no longer 20. The proverbial yearning of the old for a second crack at youth evaporates
- [Thinking Outside the Pipe: Reflections on flood season in the Pacific Northwest](https://canadianjournalist.ca/thinking-outside-the-pipe-reflections-on-flood-season-in-the-pacific-northwest/) - CHRIS WOOD: NATURAL SECURITY February, 2015 Infrastructure is an ugly word, but a big part of what governments do -- especially those we live closest to, our town or city government. ‘Infrastructure’ is also the service backbone of everything else we do in our active lives -- the bridges we drive over to work and the
- [The Reichsmarschall’s Apprentices](https://canadianjournalist.ca/the-reichsmarschalls-apprentices/) - "Why, of course, the people don't want war. But, after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine the policy and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy or a fascist dictatorship or a Parliament or a Communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the
- [The Sixth Extinction, Elizabeth Kolbert, and Princess Charlotte](https://canadianjournalist.ca/the-sixth-extinction-elizabeth-kolbert-and-princess-charlotte/) - CHRIS WOOD: NATURAL SECURITY May, 2015 If you can read Elizabeth Kolbert’s The Sixth Extinction without your heart breaking, you do not have one. If you can do so without feeling shame as a human being, your conscience must be dormant. But if you can read the New Yorker science writer’s latest book without a shiver
- [The Question of our Age](https://canadianjournalist.ca/natural-security-is-the-question-of-our-age/) - CHRIS WOOD: NATURAL SECURITYPublished September 5, 2013 With apologies to Charles Dickens, it is the best of times, it is the worst of times. We are surrounded by miracles and wonders that would have dazzled the most indulged monarch of any earlier era. And we are preparing for ourselves a tribulation commensurately greater than any
- [The Power — or Not — of Good Intentions](https://canadianjournalist.ca/the-power-or-not-of-good-intentions/) - CHRIS WOOD: NATURAL SECURITYPublished February 22, 2014 Ronald Reagan, in a lucid moment, famously characterized his approach to nuclear negotiations with the Soviet Union as: “Trust — and verify.” Much the same, it turns out, might be said for the green boasts of business. If we’re honest about it, most of what threatens our natural
- [The End of the Century is Now, in Northern Canada](https://canadianjournalist.ca/the-end-of-the-century-is-now-in-northern-canada/) - CHRIS WOOD: NATURAL SECURITYPublished April 8, 2014 The 1,000-gun salute in the realm of natural security these past weeks has been for the Fifth Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Report. So let me talk (mostly) about something else instead. The IPCC’s latest synthesis of science mainly confirms widely known trends and risks and warns, yet
- [The point of no return](https://canadianjournalist.ca/the-point-of-no-return/) - What were populations potentially at risk, are now the doomed. CHRIS WOOD: NATURAL SECURITYPublished May 17, 2014 If there were before some footing left for doubt, narrow and slippery though it might have been, there is none left now. The world as it has been for the entirety of human history is on its way
- [The Real 'Game-Changer’ was not in Beijing. Has the ‘Anglosphere’ lost its Mojo?](https://canadianjournalist.ca/the-real-game-changer-was-not-in-beijing-has-the-anglosphere-lost-its-mojo/) - CHRIS WOOD: NATURAL SECURITY November, 2014 Once upon a time an amalgam of rigorous, inquisitive candor about the physical world, and a deep delusion about superior racial entitlement, delivered control of two of the four continents that were up for colonial grabs in the 18th century to Britain. Britain’s legal and political philosophy, its English
- [Say ‘Hooyah’ for Natural Defence](https://canadianjournalist.ca/say-hooyah-for-natural-defence/) - CHRIS WOOD: NATURAL SECURITYPublished November 30, 2013 Say what you will about the United States military, no organization on earth is more focused on maintaining its capabilities no matter what. As a result, its upper echelons spend a fair amount of time considering what that ‘what’ might actually look like. Recently at a conference in
- [The Climate Models are Wrong! (Just not the models you think)](https://canadianjournalist.ca/the-climate-models-are-wrong/) - CHRIS WOOD: NATURAL SECURITY June 27, 2014 A common line of attack for the propagandists, and the misled who imagine we are not altering Earth’s climate, is that climate projections rely on models. Models! Not the real thing. Why, they could be as made-up as a model of the space ship Enterprise! Pure fiction. Of
- [Stop Digging!](https://canadianjournalist.ca/stop-digging/) - CHRIS WOOD: NATURAL SECURITY August 1, 2014 It’s one of those authorless pieces of universal wisdom: When you find yourself at the bottom of a hole, the first thing to do is stop digging. In my last installment in this space, I suggested that the time has come for what some might call desperate measures.
- [Snowballs in Climate Hell](https://canadianjournalist.ca/snowballs-in-climate-hell/) - CHRIS WOOD: NATURAL SECURITY March, 2015 Where I’ve been recently in Vancouver, Canada, the cherry blossom petals are already flocking on the ground, the daffodils wilting and the camellias almost over. The interior of the province of British Columbia posted heat records last weekend. But when a callous westerner posted these facts to Facebook, a Maritime
- [The Dutch Prescription:  take the future to court, or take it outside](https://canadianjournalist.ca/the-dutch-prescription-take-the-future-to-court-or-take-it-outside/) - CHRIS WOOD: NATURAL SECURITY April, 2015 ‘Human Rights’ are, in general, bunk. But a Dutch group is at least putting the idea of them to good use. They are taking their government to court for idling while the Earth burns. Specifically, these low country plaintiffs are asking a Dutch court to oblige their government to act
- [Planet Insurance. Seriously.](https://canadianjournalist.ca/planet-insurance-seriously/) - CHRIS WOOD: NATURAL SECURITYPublished May 2, 2014 Acidifying oceans. Desertifying fields. Liquifying glaciers and icecaps. Toxifying lakes and rivers. Our species has a nature problem. Or to put it another way: nature has a human economy problem. Before this century is over -- more likely before it’s half over -- that problem will be resolved,
- [Pope Francis’ Climate Encyclical: Galileo v Copernicus, the rematch](https://canadianjournalist.ca/pope-francis-climate-encyclical-galileo-v-copernicus-the-rematch/) - CHRIS WOOD: NATURAL SECURITY May, 2015 It’s hard to know what to make of the news that Pope Francis is planning an encyclical on climate change. On one hand, any intervention that pushes us to save the climate our species grew up with is a good thing. On the other, he stands on so much baggage
- [Needed: Better Natural Defences](https://canadianjournalist.ca/philippines-a-devastating-wakeup-call/) - CHRIS WOOD: NATURAL SECURITYPublished November 12, 2013 I’ve spent a good deal of the last few days glued to the computer screen, sifting theinternet for news from the Philippines. Not from any motive of disaster voyeurism (the armchair version of a new industry, ‘disaster tourism’1), but searching specifically for any word from a place called
- [On the fiction of averages and meaning of marbles](https://canadianjournalist.ca/on-the-fiction-of-averages-and-meaning-of-marbles/) - CHRIS WOOD: NATURAL SECURITYPublished January 15, 2014 North America’s recent wintry blast, and one unfortunate crew of ice-detained eco-cruisers in the south polar sea, have stirred the blood of the science deniers. According to well-paid propagandists working for media outlets,1 small-time municipal councillors,2 and a certain spotlight-seeking New York City property magnate and game-show host,3
- [Our Rube Goldberg World](https://canadianjournalist.ca/our-rube-goldberg-world/) - CHRIS WOOD: NATURAL SECURITYPublished March 21, 2014 Rube Goldberg is long dead, but the figurative machine to which he gave his name lives on. It’s that whimsical confection where a rolling marble tips a lever that sends a toy plane whizzing down a wire to bump into a scissors that cuts a string that drops
- [Let Nature’s Geography Trump Westphalian View](https://canadianjournalist.ca/let-natures-geography-trump-westphalian-view/) - CHRIS WOOD: NATURAL SECURITYPublished June 13, 2014 My Facts and Opinions colleague Jonathan Manthorpe writes insightfully1 about the affairs of nations. His great talent is the ability to reveal how their competition, so often ‘analysed’ as though it were the political analog of the FIFA World Cup, is in fact more a case of national
- [Isn't It Hysterical? The cliff is ahead. We have the tools to see it](https://canadianjournalist.ca/isnt-it-hysterical-the-cliff-is-ahead-we-have-the-tools-to-see-it/) - CHRIS WOOD: NATURAL SECURITY September 12, 2014 The single most useful thing that many national governments could do for their natural security today is to start by taking a good long look at it. How does this come up? Funny story. I learned a new word recently. This doesn’t happen as often as it used to
- [Kool-Aid Economics](https://canadianjournalist.ca/kool-aid-economics/) - CHRIS WOOD: NATURAL SECURITY September 26, 2014 Canadians have been aware for some time that their Prime Minister subscribes to an arcane fundamentalist strain of Christianity. Being the polite and generally go-along types we are, we have quite properly left his faith between the man and his God. However, it is now evident that Canada’s P.M.
- [Keeping the Good News Down](https://canadianjournalist.ca/keeping-the-good-news-down/) - CHRIS WOOD: NATURAL SECURITY April, 2015 Feeling low about the climate future? Wondering, as punk rocker-turned-energy-reporter Geoff Dembicki asked in a recent series of stories, “Are we screwed? No, we’re not (necessarily). But if you live in the Anglosphere -- and if you’re reading this, that’s pretty likely -- you are being deprived of much of
- [Goldilocks and Nine Billion Bears](https://canadianjournalist.ca/goldilocks-and-nine-billion-bears/) - CHRIS WOOD: NATURAL SECURITYPublished October 29, 2013 United Nations demographers forecast1 that by mid-century -- in 37 years -- there will be more than nine billion humans on the planet, about two billion more than the roughly seven billion of us now. This, as we say in Canada, is dreaming in technicolor. It very nearly
- [Follies to the right, follies to the left](https://canadianjournalist.ca/follies-to-the-right-follies-to-the-left/) - CHRIS WOOD: NATURAL SECURITYPublished January 25, 2014 It’s a popular refrain that the facts have a left-wing bias. Sometimes. But that doesn’t make the progressive left immune from the same sort of selective consciousness its members so quickly denounce on the right. Empiricism is demanded of the goose, while the gander indulges its own versions
- [Eight Simple Rules](https://canadianjournalist.ca/eight-simple-rules/) - CHRIS WOOD: NATURAL SECURITYPublished March 8, 2014 I was never a big fan of the American sit-com starring John Ritter as an amiable single father, Eight Simple Rules (for Dating my Teenage Daughter). But lately I’ve found its title rather inspirational. Allow me to propose to global capitalism eight simple rules for dating my planet:
- [From Lima to Burnaby:  the ‘Glocal’ Response to Climate](https://canadianjournalist.ca/from-lima-to-burnaby-the-glocal-response-to-climate/) - CHRIS WOOD: NATURAL SECURITY November, 2014 ‘Glocal’ is an ugly word for an often ugly process. It was coined to capture the way that global dynamics and networks touch down in the intimate spaces of neighbourhoods and family lives, as well as how the citizens of those places respond -- adopting, adapting or resisting the global
- [Davos: Pantomimes of Concern From the One Percent](https://canadianjournalist.ca/davos-pantomimes-of-concern-from-the-one-percent/) - CHRIS WOOD: NATURAL SECURITY January, 2015 The one percent are meeting in Davos, Switzerland, this week—or at least, that fraction of the one percent that retains either a trace of social conscience or an instinct for personal survival that entails more than a private army and a fortified island somewhere. The World Economic Forum (WEF)
- [Boys will be girls: "zombie" chemicals are pervasive](https://canadianjournalist.ca/boys-will-be-girls-zombie-chemicals-are-pervasive/) - Endocrine disrupting chemicals that mimic hormones, disrupting life development and function in most species, are more persistent in all environments than scientists once thought.
- [Clam rolls](https://canadianjournalist.ca/7205-2/) - CHRIS WOOD: NATURAL SECURITY August 29, 2014 Ever had a clam roll? I know, sounds like a straight line. But in the Canadian Maritimes a clam roll is a load of breaded, deep-fried clams in a hot-dog bun, usually with shredded lettuce and mayonnaise. Enjoy one, if you get the chance, because the lowly clam is
- [Are We at Peak Civilization?](https://canadianjournalist.ca/are-we-at-peak-civilization/) - The 2008 financial crisis fit well with modeled conditions that also produce a global peak in per-capita industrial output in the next 12 months, inaugurating decades of economic and demographic contraction. CHRIS WOOD: NATURAL SECURITY January, 2015 I’ve been doing some seasonal reading. Not so much of the festive, punch and fruitcake variety. More of the
- [A Reflection On Easter, Math and Judas](https://canadianjournalist.ca/a-reflection-on-easter-math-and-judas/) - CHRIS WOOD: NATURAL SECURITYPublished April 18, 2014 It is Good Friday where I live, in the most Catholic part of old Mexico. The entire week and weekend to come are turned over to a passionate mix of Christian and not-so-Christian rituals: an overnight pilgrimage of the faithful in their hundreds bearing a life-size effigy of
- [A few words about an old friend](https://canadianjournalist.ca/a-few-words-about-an-old-friend/) - “Life and death are one thread, the same line viewed from different sides.” --- Lao Tau CHRIS WOOD: NATURAL SECURITY July 18, 2014 More than on most days, the handcart in which we are all riding toward a very unpleasant destination feels like we’re maybe in sight of the station. Even for a hardened student of the
- [WHO report takes aim at Grim Reaper of "lifestyle"](https://canadianjournalist.ca/who-report-takes-aim-at-grim-reaper-of-lifestyle/) - By Alessandro R Demaio, Harvard University January 19, 2015 The World Health Organization (WHO) has just released its Global Status Report on Noncommunicable Diseases, the second in a series tracking worldwide progress in the prevention and control of cancers, lung disease, diabetes and cardiovascular disease. It focuses on how to reach the internationally agreed overarching
- [Free speech in America: Not so absolute](https://canadianjournalist.ca/free-speech-in-america-not-so-absolute/) - TOM REGAN: SUMMONING ORENDA May, 2015 The funny thing about absolutes is that sometimes they're not. A recent competition that invited Americans to submit cartoons of the prophet Mohammed is illustrative. Organized by a woman whose attacks on the Muslim community have generated much publicity across the United States, the competition had two purposes, one
- [Plus ca change, plus c’est la meme chose](https://canadianjournalist.ca/plus-ca-change-plus-cest-la-meme-chose/) - TOM REGAN: SUMMONING ORENDA October, 2015 Canadians are committing an act of insanity. Insanity being doing the same thing again and again, and expecting a different result. On October 19 millions of Canadians are marching to the polls to repeat a time honoured tradition: throw the rascals out! The rascals in this particular situation happened to be the
- [$50 billion ‘moon shot’ targets Mississippi Delta restoration](https://canadianjournalist.ca/50-billion-moon-shot-targets-mississippi-delta-restoration/) - The state of Louisiana plans to spend $50 billion over 50 years to mitigate the Gulf of Mexico threat to the Mississippi Delta.
- [Canada's Harper Government’s ‘Maginot’ Security Plan](https://canadianjournalist.ca/canadas-harper-governments-maginot-security-plan/) - CHRIS WOOD: NATURAL SECURITY June, 2015 Canada’s heavy-handed ‘security’ strategy is a sham. That statement may be true in a number of readings, ranging from motive to likely outcome (more inflamed zealots with an excuse for violence on Canadian soil). But the sense in which I mean it is this: Canada’s strategy is not securing the
- [“Give Disaster a Chance”](https://canadianjournalist.ca/give-disaster-a-chance/) - CHRIS WOOD: NATURAL SECURITY Published September 27, 2013 Where I live, in Mexico, screens have been filled with the devastation wrought by Hurricane Ingrid and tropical storm Manuel along the country’s coasts. Mexico is in no doubt about the reality of climate change, and is instituting a national strategy to respond to it. Meanwhile those
- [Thanks for your trust](https://canadianjournalist.ca/thanks-for-your-trust/) - Thanks to supporters of Facts and Opinions
- [Season's Greetings](https://canadianjournalist.ca/seasons-greetings/) - The December solstice marks our turn from autumn to winter in the North, from spring to summer in the South. It's a time of celebrations, renewal, and tradition -- and for many, a welcome break in routine and a fresh start. F&O will now take a break, and until our return on Dec. 31 we send our best wishes for your Christmas, Chanukah,
- [Fresh Sheet: Facts, and Opinions](https://canadianjournalist.ca/fresh-sheet-facts-and-opinions/) - Trump's Hot Air Far From Greatest Climate Threat, by Andrew Revkin, ProPublica Report The real risk for climate change in a Donald Trump presidency, according to close to a dozen experts interviewed for this story, lies less in impacts on specific policies like Obama's Clean Power Plan and more in the realm of shifts in
- [Facts, Opinions, and Findings of the week](https://canadianjournalist.ca/facts-opinions-and-findings-of-the-week/) - Foreign banks in Britain pay fraction of tax rate, by Tom Bergin Some of the biggest foreign investment and commercial banks operating in Britain paid an average tax rate of just 6 percent on the billions of dollars of profits they made in the country last year, a Reuters analysis of regulatory filings shows. That is
- [Red Kettles, Fake News, Corruption: Facts and Opinions this week](https://canadianjournalist.ca/red-kettles-fake-news-corruption-facts-and-opinions-this-week/) - Viola Desmond the choice for portrait on Canada's next $10 bill Our journalism boutique lineup this week features an essay by Jeremy Hainsworth, weighing discrimination against the good done by the Salvation Army in saving lives. We focus on corruption with three pieces: Jonathan Manthorpe's column on Transparency International's latest findings; India's secretive war against corruption, and how America welcomes foreign high-rollers suspected
- [Matters of Facts, and Opinions](https://canadianjournalist.ca/matters-of-facts-and-opinions-this-week-12/) - F&O's Dispatches this week: Security Chief: Europe Must Brace for New Extremist Attacks, by Alastair Macdonald Islamic State will attack Europe again, security chiefs warned on Dec. 2, and may add car bombs, cyber and chemical warfare to its local arsenal as European militants drift home after reverses in Syria and Iraq. Donald Trump's Constitutional Problem,
- [Matters of Facts, and Opinions: Castro, Trump, Burma, Nepal](https://canadianjournalist.ca/matters-of-facts-and-opinions-castro-trump-burma-nepal/) - Notebook: Our journalism boutique this week offers reports and analysis on Fidel Castro's death; Jonathan Manthorpe on Burma (also known as Myanmar); Tom Regan on past American Fascism; an essay on democratic awakening by Emily Lacika, and a report on Nepal as the set of a real-life, grim, Game of Thrones. Fidel Castro, Dead at 90: A Life
- [Facts, and Opinions: from Ireland's Rising to the dogs of Costa Rica; a prison rodeo to dissing women](https://canadianjournalist.ca/facts-and-opinions-from-irelands-rising-to-the-dogs-of-costa-rica-a-prison-rodeo-to-dissing-women/) - Commentary: Remembering the Pillar, by Brian Brennan A century ago, on April 29, 1916, the Irish Republic ended its brief existence with an unconditional surrender. Though successfully thwarted, it set off a series of events that led to the outbreak of an Irish war of independence between 1919 and 1921. Brian Brennan writes about his experience
- [Facts, and Opinions, this week](https://canadianjournalist.ca/facts-and-opinions-this-week-11/) - We focus this week on three main events: F&O marks Remembrance Day this year with a photo-essay by Greg Locke, thoughts on the poppy by Alex Kennedy, and a feature by Jonathan Manthorpe on the WWII Battle for Hong Kong. We have a story about Canadian poet, rocker and mystic Leonard Cohen, who died this week, age 82. And of
- [Facts, and Opinions, this week](https://canadianjournalist.ca/facts-and-opinions-this-week-10/) - Below is F&O's Fresh Sheet. We'll have more stories later this week -- see our Contents page for our newest original and curated works. Notebook: Current affairs are a raging flood, from breaking news about the Canada-Europe free trade dea. (Reuters) to a pipeline protest in North Dakota that activist Bill McKibben calls the "New Keystone" and writer Paul VanDevelder calls a "reckoning" that began with America's Founding
- [F&O this week](https://canadianjournalist.ca/fo-this-week-2/) - F&O's Fresh Sheet this week features: Focus on Bob Dylan, who this week won the Nobel Prize for Literature: His Bob-ness joins Yeats, Beckett, and Eliot, by Rod Mickleburgh In the winter of 1990, I waited with a handful of reporters and photographers in a grand salon of the Palais-Royal in Paris for Bob Dylan.
- [Facts and Opinions this week](https://canadianjournalist.ca/facts-and-opinions-this-week-9/) - This slideshow requires JavaScript. F&O's Fresh Sheet includes: Most US Muslims comfortably integrated, by Tom Regan Column The raging Islamophobia of America's presidential election present a very negative view of American Muslims. It is also completely false. Nature needs a seat at the UN, by Anthony Burke and Stefanie Fishel Expert Witness Is our system of global environmental
- [F&O's Fresh Sheet](https://canadianjournalist.ca/fos-fresh-sheet/) - Shimon Peres funeral joins Israeli, Palestinian leaders — briefly. By Jeffrey Heller and Jeff Mason Israeli and Palestinian leaders shook hands during a brief chat and U.S. President Barack Obama gently reminded them of the “unfinished business of peace” at the funeral Friday of Shimon Peres, the last of a generation of Israel’s founding fathers. SHIMON
- [Facts, and Opinions, that matter this week](https://canadianjournalist.ca/facts-and-opinions-that-matter-this-week-13/) - Fresh works on Facts and Opinions this week: Bush’s War on Terror Unending, by Jonathan Manthorpe Column Fifteen years ago George W. Bush launched the “War on Terror.” It was an incalculable strategic mistake, and there is no end in sight. Rage over Racism: America Asked For It, by Tom Regan Column Many years ago, I was waiting in Boston's Park
- [Findings](https://canadianjournalist.ca/findings-2/) - Our regulars at F&O are taking a breather this Labour Day, to savour the last of summer and brace for the passage into fall and winter -- a snowy and cold one, if the Farmer's Almanac has anything to say about it. Our journal is a trove of thoughtful, informative and sometimes delightful stories -- as those who browse our
- [Matters of Facts, and Opinions, this week](https://canadianjournalist.ca/matters-of-facts-and-opinions-this-week-11/) - Facts and Opinions is on a reduced publishing schedule until after Labour Day in September, when our regular columnists and schedule will return. What Comes After Colombia's Peace Deal? By Annette Idler Analysis What will happen after the Colombian government and the guerrilla group FARC finalized a peace deal, ending the long-running war? An official end to war with
- [Facts, and Opinions, that matter this week](https://canadianjournalist.ca/facts-and-opinions-that-matter-this-week-12/) - New York's Colour Line, Between Black and Blue, by Ruth Hopkins Magazine When American police officers shot dead two black men – Anton Sterling and Philando Castile – within 24 hours in the sweltering heat of July, thousands took to the streets to protest against the violence that they say is predominantly aimed at African
- [Matters of Facts, and Opinions, this week](https://canadianjournalist.ca/matters-of-facts-and-opinions-this-week-10/) - Where I live, in the Pacific Northwest, aboriginals and many newcomers refer to ourselves as The People of the Salmon. This week, sports fishing was cancelled, alongside closed commercial harvests, on the mighty and mythical Fraser River. Too few wild salmon are returning from the Pacific Ocean to spawn, said the joint Canada/U.S. Pacific Salmon Commission. The waters are
- [Facts, and Opinions, this week](https://canadianjournalist.ca/facts-and-opinions-this-week-8/) - Dump the Olympics, by Tom Regan, Summoning Orenda columnist There comes a time in life when all good things must come to an end. This is certainly true of the “modern” Olympics with one small change – the Olympics are no longer a good thing. South African politics see tectonic shift, by Jonathan Manthorpe, International Affairs
- [Matters of Facts, and Opinions, this week](https://canadianjournalist.ca/matters-of-facts-and-opinions-this-week-9/) - Public Health Crucial for Urbanized World, by Nate Berg Report About 4 billion people now live in urban areas. Denser concentrations are considered efficient, reduce environmental impact and are more sustainable. They also mean a greater risk of exposure to infectious diseases. Pope at Auschwitz, Says Same Horrors Happening Today, by Philip Pullella Report Pope Francis made an emotional and silent visit to
- [Matters of Facts, and Opinions, this week.](https://canadianjournalist.ca/matters-of-facts-and-opinions-this-week-8/) - Our work this week ranges from a photo essay of Ireland, to economics, to political commentary about what happens when a well-organised and productive country puts a despot in charge. You may have to read Jonathan Manthorpe's piece to guess which country. Hint: it's not America (yet). See our list of new works, below, and on our Contents page. But
- [Facts, and Opinions, that matter this week](https://canadianjournalist.ca/facts-and-opinions-that-matter-this-week-11/) - Supporters of Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan cheer at the Ataturk Airport in Istanbul, Turkey July 16, 2016. REUTERS/Huseyin Aldemir Reporting Turkish coup crumbles, crowds answer call to streets, by Nick Tattersall and Ece Toksabay An attempted Turkish military coup appeared to crumble on Saturday after crowds answered President Tayyip Erdogan's call to take to the
- [South China Sea nears boiling point with Hague ruling](https://canadianjournalist.ca/south-china-sea-nears-boiling-point-with-hague-ruling/) - On Tuesday, July 12, the Permanent Court of Arbitration in the Hague ruled will rule on an argument by the Philippines government that China's claim to own 90 per cent of the South China Sea is false. The court is expected to rule ruled in Manila's favour. Beijing has already said it will take no notice of the
- [Facts, and Opinions, this week](https://canadianjournalist.ca/facts-and-opinions-this-week-7/) - Fishing with Fire: a photo essay, by Tyrone Siu Report Under the darkness of the night sky, a small group of Taiwan fishermen set sail off the northeast coast, light a fire on the end of a bamboo stick using chemicals and wait for the fish to come. Like a magnet, hundreds of sardines leap
- [Brexit, aboriginal day, Colombia, a poem: Matters of Facts, and Opinions](https://canadianjournalist.ca/brexit-aboriginal-day-colombia-a-poem-matters-of-facts-and-opinions/) - 'Explosive shock' as Britain votes to leave EU, Cameron quits, by Guy Faulconbridge and Kate Holton Report Britain has voted to leave the European Union, forcing the resignation of Prime Minister David Cameron and dealing the biggest blow since World War Two to the European project of forging greater unity. Brexit Factbox: Who, where, when
- [Brexit (UK referendum on European Union), etc.](https://canadianjournalist.ca/brexit-uk-referendum-on-european-union-etc/) - Citizens of the United Kingdom vote tomorrow today* on Brexit, the referendum on whether Britain should leave Europe. The impact, no matter which way the vote goes, is already global. We'll have a wrapup on the weekend. Meantime, here are some suggestions of where to follow the breaking news: The BBC's page for all stories about the European Referendum: http://www.bbc.com/news/politics/eu_referendum The
- [Facts, and Opinions, that matter this week](https://canadianjournalist.ca/facts-and-opinions-that-matter-this-week-10/) - Commentary and analysis: Verbatim: Hate, mainstreamed -- UN High Commissioner for Human Rights. By Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein Excerpts Hate is becoming mainstreamed. Walls – which tormented previous generations, and have never yielded any sustainable solution to any problem – are returning. Barriers of suspicion are rising, snaking through and between our societies – and they
- [Massacre at US nightclub](https://canadianjournalist.ca/massacre-at-us-nightclub/) - Massacre at U.S. nightclub, ISIS claims responsibility, by Reuters A man armed with an assault rifle killed 50 people at a packed gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida on Sunday in the worst mass shooting in U.S. history, which President Barack Obama described as an act of terror and hate. Police killed the shooter, who was
- [Facts and Opinions that matter, this week](https://canadianjournalist.ca/facts-and-opinions-that-matter-this-week-9/) - MUHAMMAD ALI: the final goodbye to "The Greatest," by Nick Carey and Steve Bittenbender Fans chanting "Ali!" and throwing flowers lined the streets of Muhammad Ali's hometown in Kentucky on June 10 for a funeral procession to celebrate the boxing champion who jolted America with his showmanship and won worldwide admiration as a man of principle. Muhammad
- [Facts, and Opinions, that matter this week](https://canadianjournalist.ca/facts-and-opinions-that-matter-this-week-8/) - Reports: Shelter the focus at Venice Architecture Biennale, by Joel Dullroy The Venice Architecture Biennale is usually a showcase of prestigious architecture projects from around the world, but Germany’s entry this year has taken a different angle, focusing instead on simple shelters used to house asylum seekers. Emily Dickinson's garden, "native" plants, and climate change, by
- [Facts, and Opinions, this week: From the G7 to pregnancy meds, Brexit to Taiwan](https://canadianjournalist.ca/facts-and-opinions-this-week-from-the-g7-to-pregnancy-meds-brexit-to-taiwan/) - G7 warns of risks to economic growth, health, by F&O Report The G7 wrapped up its 2016 summit with warnings, of risks to economic growth, health threats from microbes resistant to antibiotics and the handling of health emergencies, as well as a loss of public trust in tax systems to the need for infrastructure investment and trade agreements. Which Brexit forecast
- [Facts, and Opinions, that matter this week](https://canadianjournalist.ca/facts-and-opinions-that-matter-this-week-7/) - The Story of the Komagatu Maru, by Rod Mickleburgh, report At long last, a formal apology was delivered in the House of Commons for Canada’s racist behaviour in its shameful treatment of Sikh passengers aboard the Komagata Maru who had the effrontery to seek immigration to the West Coast more than a hundred years ago. Not only were
- [Facts, and Opinions, this week](https://canadianjournalist.ca/facts-and-opinions-this-week-6/) - When governments go rogue, fail, or are toppled by forces outside their control, things break down. Quickly, ordinary people suffer. Venezuela, once oil-rich and the fat cat of Latin America, is in trouble: the government is fighting for its political life and declared a state of emergency on Friday. The Americans are eyeing it with concern. To put the politics
- [From fiery Alberta to North Korea, America's genie to London's mayor: Facts, and Opinions, this week](https://canadianjournalist.ca/from-fiery-alberta-to-north-korea-americas-genie-to-londons-mayor-facts-and-opinions-this-week/) - Fort McMurray: Boom, bust ...burned, by Rod Nickel and Liz Hampton A convoy of evacuees from the Canadian oil town of Fort McMurray drove through the heart of a massive wildfire guided by police and military helicopters as they sought to reach safety to the south of the burning city. "Our life is here. We will
- [AI chills and thrills, climate pledges, a Nazi haven, children's lit, and a film about a genius: Facts, and Opinions, that matter this week](https://canadianjournalist.ca/ai-chills-and-thrills-climate-pledges-a-nazi-haven-childrens-lit-and-a-film-about-a-genius-facts-and-opinions-that-matter-this-week/) - Reports: China, US, among those pledging to ratify Paris Agreement. By Michelle Nichols & Valerie Volcovici Report China and the United States, the world's top producers of greenhouse gas emissions, pledged to formally adopt by the end of the year a Paris deal to slow global warming, raising the prospects of it being enforced much
- [Good reads: fresh Facts, and provocative Opinions](https://canadianjournalist.ca/good-reads-fresh-facts-and-provocative-opinions/) - KINGS OF THE RANCH. By Brian Brennan Feature After a historic cattle ranch was added to a major conservation site in the foothills of the Canadian Rockies, the two eccentric brothers who originally owned the ranch were again in the spotlight. Although they saw the property appreciate in value to an estimated $6 million during the
- [History for Sale: The King Brothers Ranch](https://canadianjournalist.ca/history-for-sale-the-king-brothers-ranch/) - The pending sale of a ranch in the foothills of the Canadian Rockies has drawn renewed attention to its former eccentric owners, Maurice and Harrold King
- [The back story, to the troubles facing Brazil's Dilma Rousseff](https://canadianjournalist.ca/the-back-story-to-the-troubles-facing-brazils-dilma-rousseff/) - A Brazilian congressional committee has recommended the impeachment of President Dilma Rousseff. For background on this story and what was recently seen as one of the world's champion developing economies has plunged into chaos see Jonathan Manthorpe's column published by F&O on March 17th. Excerpt of the piece, BRICS turning to rubble: The leadership chaos
- [Fresh facts, and opinions, this week](https://canadianjournalist.ca/fresh-facts-and-opinions-this-week-2/) - Burma's Aung San Suu Kyi: The Image And The Reality, by Jonathan Manthorpe, F&O International Affairs It has come as a shock to Aung San Suu Kyi’s international groupies and fans that the Burmese freedom icon is not the ethereal Princess in the Tower of their imaginations. Instead of the pure visionary of a silken
- [Fresh Facts, and Opinions, this week: from a robot to the circus, civilization's clash to Pakistan's madness](https://canadianjournalist.ca/fresh-facts-and-opinions-this-week-from-a-robot-to-the-circus-civilizations-clash-to-pakistans-madness/) - Attend to the Real Clash of Civilizations, by Tom Regan, Summoning Orenda F&O column “Am I my brother’s keeper?” How you answer this question tells a great deal about you as a person and about the kind of society in which you would like to live. And the great clash of civilization is between tolerance and intolerance.
- [Fresh: Facts, and Opinions, this week](https://canadianjournalist.ca/fresh-facts-and-opinions-this-week/) - The West’s racist response to terrorism, by Tom Regan. Column It was a horrible attack. The terrorist gunmen walked up and down the beach, slaughtering men, women and children with each step they took. In one case, a small child begged for his life only to be murdered by the gunmen. A deaf child in
- [Balkanization and the Radovan Karadžić verdict](https://canadianjournalist.ca/balkanization-and-the-radovan-karadzic-verdict/) - Former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadžić was convicted and sentenced today by the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia in The Hague. The U.N judges found him guilty of genocide for the 1995 Srebrenica massacre, and of nine other war crimes charges. Read the Reuters news report on F&O, with a photo-essay: UN Court Finds Karadžić Guilty in Bosnia
- [The Attacks on Brussels](https://canadianjournalist.ca/the-attacks-on-brussels/) - At least 30 people were killed and scores injured in terrorist attacks on Brussels today, March 22. Reports and analysis on Facts and Opinions, listed below, provide the crucial information as well as the deep context. But first, a note. Soon, if they have not already, critics will complain that those of us in developed countries pay undue
- [Facts, and Opinions, that matter this week](https://canadianjournalist.ca/facts-and-opinions-that-matter-this-week-6/) - Trump or no Trump, the Democrats are going to win in the fall. Tom Regan, F&O Columnist I’m tired of all the handwringing about Donald Trump. Yes, he’s bringing out a lot of new white voters, particularly angry white men. Yes, more Republicans are showing up to vote in the primaries than Democrats are. Yes, Trump
- [FINDINGS: The best of reporting on Donald Trump](https://canadianjournalist.ca/findings-the-best-of-reporting-on-donald-trump/) - by Sarah Smith, ProPublica If elected president of the United States, Donald Trump has promised to "open up" libel laws so he can sue news organizations like they've "never got sued before." While the First Amendment is still intact, ProPublica compiled a list of some articles he might have his eye on. Trump's Bad Bet: How
- [For curious people who think: Facts, and Opinions, that matter](https://canadianjournalist.ca/for-curious-people-who-think-facts-and-opinions-that-matter/) - Brain food for your week: Facts, and Opinions, that matter. Enjoy. Reports: The Dunblane massacre at 20: how Britain rewrote gun laws. By Peter Squires Thomas Hamilton walked into Dunblane Primary School, near Stirling, Scotland on March 13 1996, armed with four legally-owned handguns and over 700 rounds of ammunition. In three to four terrible minutes, he
- [Weekender: Matters of Facts, and Opinions](https://canadianjournalist.ca/weekender-matters-of-facts-and-opinions/) - Ruth Hopkins writes from Pollsmoor Prison in the Western Cape of South Africa: International Women’s Day on March 8 turns the spotlight on the fate of women, in particular their achievements and the slow pace of progress. An often overlooked group are women prisoners. Their needs, views and struggles barely figure in feminist discourse, let alone
- [The incompetence of Hamas, and isolation of Israel: Manthorpe](https://canadianjournalist.ca/the-incompetence-of-hamas-and-isolation-of-israel-manthorpe/) - International Affairs columnist Jonathan Manthorpe tackles the crisis of Israel and Palestine crisis in a new column, Hamas Leads Gaza Down a Dead-end Street. An excerpt: Not the least of the problems of finding any kind of solution to the plight of the Palestinians is that the Hamas zealots who control Gaza are incompetent terrorists and jihadis. Hamas’
- [The 88th Oscars: Focus on Hollywood](https://canadianjournalist.ca/the-88th-oscars-focus-on-hollywood/) - Catholic Church abuse movie "Spotlight" was named best picture, the top award at Sunday's Oscar ceremony, reports Reuters' Jill Serjeant, after an evening peppered with pointed punchlines from host Chris Rock about the #OscarsSoWhite controversy that has dominated the industry. ... read our stories and photo essay, 'Spotlight' wins top Oscar amid night of race-related critiques F&O's Oscars
- [Matters of Facts, and Opinions, this week](https://canadianjournalist.ca/matters-of-facts-and-opinions-this-week-7/) - Reports: CRAIG VENTER: Biotech's biggest entrepreneur on a quest to delay ageing. By Roger Highfield Craig Venter wants HLI to create the world’s most important database for interpreting the genetic code, so he can make healthcare more proactive, preventative and predictive. Such data marks the start of a decisive shift in medicine, from treatment to prevention.
- [Antonin Scalia](https://canadianjournalist.ca/antonin-scalia/) - Updated Saturday Feb. 20 The death on Feb. 13 of Justice Antonin Scalia, leader of the conservative wing of America's Supreme Court, may be one of those rare events on which history pivots. And given the court's oversized influence on world affairs, at a critical time for the environment, finance and human rights, the impact will be global. Scalia died at a Texas
- [Courage, mystery, and death: Facts and Opinions about Harper Lee](https://canadianjournalist.ca/courage-mystery-and-death-facts-and-opinions-about-harper-lee/) - To Kill a Mockingbird author Harper Lee dies, age 89, by Bill Trott, February 19, 2106 Harper Lee, who wrote one of America’s most beloved literary classics, “To Kill a Mockingbird,” and surprised readers with a second book about racial injustice in the U.S. South after living a largely reclusive life for decades, died at the age
- [Matters of Facts, and Opinions, this week](https://canadianjournalist.ca/matters-of-facts-and-opinions-this-week-6/) - F&O's fresh sheet this week includes the eclectic, the interesting, the fun stuff, several thought-provoking essays -- and startling or stunning images. Bon appétit. In Arts: Deepa Mehta: pushing boundaries with Beeba Boys All of Deepa Mehta’s major films have caused controversy, including the latest, Beeba Boys. Just released, Beeba Boys (kind of a Sikh Sopranos) depicts the stylish, violent world of second- and
- [Facts, and Opinions, that matter this week](https://canadianjournalist.ca/facts-and-opinions-that-matter-this-week-4/) - The Year of the Monkey begins today, on the Chinese New Year, and so we begin the year with a report about the new year as the world's biggest consumer holiday: Chinese New Year, the world’s biggest consumer festival, by Qing Shan Ding. North Korea is in the news after firing a rocket that left a trail of anger, from the UN Security Council to
- [Facts, and Opinions, that matter: from Zika to America's "Arab Spring"](https://canadianjournalist.ca/facts-and-opinions-that-matter-from-zika-to-americas-arab-spring/) - The World Health Organization declared the Zika virus "a Public Health Emergency of International Concern" today. The WHO cited a suspected, though not yet scientifically proven, link between infection during pregnancy and microcephaly, the way the disease is spreading to vulnerable people, and the lack of vaccines and tests were also given as reasons. Zika is spread by common mosquitoes, and is thought to have arrived in
- [Facts, and Opinions, that matter this week](https://canadianjournalist.ca/facts-and-opinions-that-matter-this-week-5/) - REUTERS/Pichi Chuang Taiwan set to complete the transition to democracy. By Jonathan Manthorpe, International Affairs Column Taiwan has surged over the hump of its 35-year voyage from a military-ruled, one-party state to one of the most successful and vibrant democracies in Asia. The Donald Trump meme: nostalgia for a fantasy. By Tom Regan, Summoning Orenda Column
- [F&O: New stories and findings](https://canadianjournalist.ca/fo-new-stories-and-findings/) - Aid workers were finally allowed into besiged Syrian town Madaya this week. As predicted, they found desperate, starving citizens. Read the Reuters report: Heartbreak in starving Syrian town about emaciated and starving residents, with hundreds in need of specialised medical help. On the weekend we ran international affairs columnist Jonathan Manthorpe's scorching essay, Class war returns, this time as a global issue. There
- [Matters of Facts, and Opinions, this week](https://canadianjournalist.ca/matters-of-facts-and-opinions-this-week-4/) - To Protect Monarch Butterfly, A Plan to Save the Sacred Firs. By Janet Marinelli Report Mexican scientists are striving to plant oyamel fir trees at higher altitudes in an effort to save the species, as well as its fluttering iconic winter visitor — the migrating monarch butterfly — from the devastating effects of climate change. The
- [Christmas merriment](https://canadianjournalist.ca/christmas-merriment/) - The meaning of Christmas is elusive. For some it's a season of consumer extravaganzas and a boon for business. For others it's profoundly religious. In places it's fallen prey to partisan and tribal chicanery. It can be a time of happiness, angst or peace. Even the date of Jesus's birth is elusive: December 25 is celebrated, but theological and scholarly debates rage over evidence of a spring birth. Then there's the ongoing speculation that early
- [Matters of Facts, and Opinions, this week](https://canadianjournalist.ca/matters-of-facts-and-opinions-this-week-3/) - Since German fantasy/horror author E.T.A. Hoffmann penned his 1816 novella The Nutcracker and the Mouse King, the bizarre and charming tale has inspired and entertained, even as Hoffmann's name is overshadowed by others more famous. The ballet The Nutcracker, by Russian composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, is a seasonal staple, and here photographer Grigory Dukor has done it justice in this week's photo essay
- [A star-studded cast: Brian Brennan's Brief Encounters](https://canadianjournalist.ca/a-star-studded-cast-brian-brennans-brief-encounters/) - Set aside quality time over the holiday to enjoy Brian Brennan's Brief Encounters with a star-studded cast of 64 entertainers. (Modestly-priced subscription required, see below*. If you're a subscriber and lack your pass code, please email editor@canadianjournalist.ca) From poignant to charming to hilarious, the columns include Brennan's interviews with satiric songwriter Nancy White; pop superstars Michael Nesmith and Kenny Rogers; actor Elizabeth Taylor;
- [Money jitters and Janet Yellen's Federal Reserve](https://canadianjournalist.ca/money-jitters-and-janet-yellens-federal-reserve/) - The world's money people have the jitters ahead of a historic U.S. Federal Reserve decision on American interest rates, expected Wednesday. If rates go up, it would be the first time in more than nine years. Analysts are busy predicting either disaster or a boon. The decision may be the biggest development since the global financial crisis. Days before Wednesday's decision gold edged up (Nasdaq)
- [Findings: Best of the web](https://canadianjournalist.ca/findings-best-of-the-web/) - Once, during slow spells in a long-ago night desk job, I started a game to help keep me alert: I inserted the word "kerfuffle" into as many news stories as were appropriate. It amused me, especially after I inveigled others to play. (Did I mention slow spells?) Today I'm amused to find a science version of this word game. The BMJ,
- [Democracy scores](https://canadianjournalist.ca/democracy-scores/) - Saudi Arabia held rare elections this weekend. For the first time since a ban on their participation was lifted, Saudi women voted -- and several were elected to municipal councils. As the BBC reported, "Elections of any kind are rare in the Saudi kingdom - Saturday was only the third time in history that Saudis had gone to
- [Paris Agreement on climate](https://canadianjournalist.ca/paris-agreement-on-climate/) - Paris Agreement: landmark accord, turn from fossil fuels, By Alister Doyle and Barbara Lewis The global climate summit in Paris agreed a landmark accord on Saturday, setting the course for a historic transformation of the world’s fossil fuel-driven economy within decades in a bid to arrest global warming. Climate: Paris Agreement at a glance, by The Conversation staff. Report
- [Facts, and Opinions, this week](https://canadianjournalist.ca/facts-and-opinions-this-week-5/) - "The Paris Agreement is adopted," said French foreign minister Laurent Fabius late Saturday at the Paris climate summit. Weary delegates cheered and applauded the global agreement on tackling climate change, reached by 195 countries after years of preparation and two weeks of grinding negotiations. "The most difficult part is over," said Fabius, banging a green gavel to signal the
- [Findings: the best of the web](https://canadianjournalist.ca/findings-the-best-of-the-web/) - You've read F&O's latest work, I assume? (If not, may I respectfully remind you, here, of the essential stories on our Contents page?) Why ISIS is winning, with America’s help TOM REGAN: Summoning Orenda Column Soldiers patrol Brussels, raids lead to arrests GABRIELA BACZYNSKA & PHILIP BLENKINSOP Report The View From Counterterror’s Front Lines SEBASTIAN ROTELLA, ProPublica Report Bibi Times: Netanyahu’s
- [Matters of Facts, and Opinions: guns, climate and a ferry tale](https://canadianjournalist.ca/matters-of-facts-and-opinions-guns-climate-and-a-ferry-tale/) - Far more people die horribly in the world's benighted places than die by guns in the United States, and yet American gun violence hogs global attention. The reason is simple: the American dream was once the world's dream of a good life. That's at least the PR spin: America the great, a beacon of justice and 'freedom,' the City on the Hill, self-styled leader
- [Matters of Facts, and Opinions, this week](https://canadianjournalist.ca/matters-of-facts-and-opinions-this-week-2/) - What deserves attention, in this crazy and constant flood of distractions? That, always, is F&O's top question. Our aim to offer a journalism boutique of the best, most interesting, stories --to earn a regular spot in your travels through the web. Here are our new reads for the weekend; on Monday, we'll have a series for the climate summit in Paris. If you have comments or suggestions, please drop me a line at djones AT factsandopinions.com. Thanks for your interest
- [Sunday reads on F&O](https://canadianjournalist.ca/sunday-reads-on-fo/) - Ron Hynes: the man of 1000 songs departs for Cryer’s Paradise. By Greg Locke Newfoundland singer-songwriter and musical legend, Ron Hynes, died Nov. 19. He was 64. In an ironic coincidence there was a power failure in downtown St John’s around the same time. Across the bar I heard someone say, “I guess Ron turned
- [Facts, and Opinions, this week](https://canadianjournalist.ca/facts-and-opinions-this-week-4/) - F&O ranges this week from extremist attacks to Starbucks' red cups; from the trouble with America's news media to HONY; from the science behind picky-eating cats, to how Jihadi John -- reportedly killed -- came to be. Find essential facts, and analysis that goes behind the headlines and off the beaten track: Focus on the Paris attacks: Our selective grief: Paris, Beirut, Ankara, and Syria TOM REGAN: Summoning
- [Attacks rock France](https://canadianjournalist.ca/attacks-rock-france/) - PARIS (Reuters) - France was rocked by multiple, near simultaneous attacks on entertainment sites around Paris on Friday evening and French media said at least 60 people were killed and hostages were being held in a concert hall in the capital. The apparently coordinated gun and bomb attacks came as the country, a founder member
- [In Remembrance](https://canadianjournalist.ca/in-remembrance/) - Canada's Legion Magazine commissioned a video to mark the centenary of the poem “In Flanders Fields” by Lieutenant-Colonel John McCrae, read by Leonard Cohen. ICYMI, from F&O archives: Far from Flanders Fields Deborah Jones, Free Range column It’s at Ypres that my imagination falters, along with my tenuous grasp of poet John McCrae’s identity, and interest in the tiresome debate
- [A finding, and F&O's lineup](https://canadianjournalist.ca/a-finding-and-fos-lineup/) - From our Findings file: for thinky types and policy wonks, the Disruptive Innovation Festival -- site here -- might be of interest. From November 2 - 20, mostly online but also in physical locations around the world, the annual festival "brings together entrepreneurs, designers, industry, makers, learners and doers to explore and respond to the changing economy." Sponsored by the
- [Trade, Elvis, Chalabi, priest abuse, VW, global unknowns -- and World Indigenous Games: F&O this week](https://canadianjournalist.ca/trade-elvis-chalabi-priest-abuse-vw-global-unknowns-and-world-indigenous-games-fo-this-week/) - World Indigenous Games, a photo-essay by Ueslei Marcelino Ahead of the Summer Olympics in 2016, Brazil is host to a new event – the World Indigenous Games. Ahmed Chalabi: Death of a Salesman, by Jonathan Manthorpe, F&O International Affairs column Ahmed Chalabi is lucky he died this week. Had he lived longer, he would have faced yet
- [White House decision on Keystone pipeline](https://canadianjournalist.ca/white-house-decision-on-keystone-pipeline/) - UPDATED: The U.S. rejected the final phase of the Keystone pipeline, President Barack Obama announced at his Friday morning press conference. "The State Department has decided that the Keystone XL Pipeline would not serve the national interest of the United States," said Obama in a statement, adding "I agree." TransCanada Corp.'s application for the Keystone XL pipeline, shipping oil from Alberta's
- [Political change sweeps Canada](https://canadianjournalist.ca/political-change-sweeps-canada/) - Breaking: TORONTO (Reuters) - Canada's Prime Minister Stephen Harper will resign as leader of the Conservative party following its crushing defeat to the Liberals in Monday's election, the Conservatives said in a statement. The party will appoint an interim leader through a leadership selection process, it said. Harper has been prime minister for almost a
- [F&O this week: Daylight Savings; Spectre; oil; China's children](https://canadianjournalist.ca/f-spectre-oil-chinas-children/) - Welcome to Facts and Opinions. We rely on the honour system: enjoy one story at no charge, and if you value our independent, no-spam, no-ads journalism, chip in at least two bits. Click here for details. World: America's Lying Season. By Tom Regan, Summoning Orenda column It’s the lying season in American politics. What’s different is our willingness
- [F&O this week: big world, country politics, and arts](https://canadianjournalist.ca/fo-this-week-big-world-country-politics-and-arts/) - Welcome to Facts and Opinions. Enjoy one story at no charge. If you value our work, please chip in at least .27 per story or $1 for a day site pass, using the "donate" button below. Click here for details. Real journalism -- no spam, no ads -- has value. Thanks for your support. BREAKING news update: Hurricane Patricia spares cities,
- [Focus on Canadian politics](https://canadianjournalist.ca/focus-on-canadian-politics/) - Today Canadians head to the polls for Canada's 42nd federal general election. The campaign, one of the longest in Canadian history, has been ugly and divisive. Canada's three traditional parties, the incumbent Conservatives, Liberals, and New Democrats, are challenged not only by the Greens and, in the province of Quebec, the Bloc Quebecois --but this year also by large blocks of organized
- [Facts, and Opinions, this week](https://canadianjournalist.ca/facts-and-opinions-this-week-3/) - In the first of two Frontlines posts this weekend, F&O offers our weekly lineup of eclectic reads and stunning images for your weekend pleasure. Watch for our Focus on Canadian politics, prior to the federal election Monday Oct. 19. Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2015, Natural History Museum, London Canadian photographer Don Gutoski won Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2015 in
- [Thankfulness, Columbus, and our Fresh Sheet of works](https://canadianjournalist.ca/thankfulness-columbus-and-our-fresh-sheet-of-works/) - Happy Thanksgiving from Canada, where F&O is based and where many of our readers reside. Canada's thanksgiving has nothing of the glitz and commercialism of America's famous festival a month later. Here it is, perhaps like Canada itself, more moderate, a celebration of feasts and gatherings, rooted in the northerly harvest season. This time Canada is also in the throes of an angry, divisive and lengthy campaign
- [Marg!, Princess Warrior joins the fray](https://canadianjournalist.ca/marg-princess-warrior-joins-the-fray/) - Newfoundland writer, actress and comedian, Mary Walsh, finally chimed in on the Canadian election with her character, Marg! Princess Warrior, this week with her Marg Brings Change campaign. Made famous on This Hour has 22 Minutes, Marg has been smiting politicians with her foam sword for many years and her love for Stephen Harper is
- [Recommended reads – new gems, forgotten treasures and hidden riches](https://canadianjournalist.ca/recommended-reads-new-gems-forgotten-treasures-and-hidden-riches/) - By Tom Regan What to read? What to read? So much material, so little time. So we here at Facts and Opinions want to help. Starting this week, we’ll have some recommended reading for you from across the web, and the odd archive from our own site. And not just recent works either, because, as you
- [Facts, and Opinions, this week](https://canadianjournalist.ca/facts-and-opinions-this-week-2/) - F&O starts our week in easternmost Canada, with Greg Locke's photo-essay about the resilience (and beauty) of rural Newfoundland. We focus onPope Francis's visit to the Americas; relish the news about Africa's bright spot of Ivory Coast; puzzle at a seemingly-crazy notion that orange juice could replace petroleum; and heed Tom Regan's warning about a future of massive migration. Read about Corbynomics by its creator, and discover how in
- [From South Africa's prisons to a deaf pop star, Queen Elizabeth to the Arctic: Facts, and Opinions, this week](https://canadianjournalist.ca/from-south-africas-prisons-to-a-deaf-pop-star-queen-elizabeth-to-the-arctic-facts-and-opinions-this-week/) - JEREMY CORBYN: British Labour’s New Leader. By William James and Michael Holden Jeremy Corbyn, a veteran left-winger who professes an admiration for Karl Marx, was elected leader of Britain's opposition Labour party. "Things can and they will change," Corbyn, who when he entered the contest was a rank outsider, said in his acceptance speech
- [Not finished with Earth](https://canadianjournalist.ca/582/) - NASA's Kepler spacecraft problem ends hopes for earthly escape Stephen Hawking warns as necessary or face extinction
- [Migrants, Greece's Varoufakis, GMOs and Ashley Madison: F&O this week](https://canadianjournalist.ca/migrants-greeces-varoufakis-gmos-and-ashley-madison-fo-this-week/) - We focus first this week on Europe's refugee crisis. The migration of desperate people did not begin overnight, and as always F&O's line up includes recent news, deep context, and some opinion: Nowhere to Run: A roundup of Europe's refugee crisis, by Pia Dangelmayer (*unlocked) Migrants shut trains to UK; dead wash ashore in Turkey , by
- [Crackland Ballet, Hurricane Katrina, Kenyan Fishers and US Gun laws: Facts, and Opinions, this week](https://canadianjournalist.ca/crackland-ballet-hurricane-katrina-kenyan-fishers-and-us-gun-laws-facts-and-opinions-this-week/) - Ballet in Brazil's 'Crackland'. By Nacho Doce (*unlocked) On the outskirts of Sao Paulo in Brazil, the rough Luz neighbourhood - known as Cracolandia or "Crackland" locally for its widespread use of crack cocaine – might seem a world away from the beauty and grace usually associated with ballet. But there’s another side to life in Luz,
- [Migrants and David Simon's latest: matters of Facts, and Opinions](https://canadianjournalist.ca/migrants-and-david-simons-latest-matters-of-facts-and-opinions/) - This week we bring to you an eclectic array of stories. Inside our site find works on David Simon's new U.S. TV series on HBO; the rising tensions on the Korean Peninsula, migrants, and columns that will provoke -- at least -- thought. In Dispatches: Migrants: A Train Towards a New Life. Photo-essay by Ogden Reofilovski,
- [Facts, and Opinions, this week](https://canadianjournalist.ca/facts-and-opinions-this-week/) - Seventy years ago this month the Pacific War of World War II ended, and the Atomic Age began. First off this week, F&O focuses on the war, and continuing aftermath: Japanese Remorse: Once More With Feeling, by Jonathan Manthorpe (*subscription) Japan’s current Prime Minister, Shinzo Abe, is having another crack on August 15, the 70th anniversary
- [Facts and Opinions, and context](https://canadianjournalist.ca/facts-and-opinions-and-context/) - Context is everything: facts or opinions rarely stand strong by themselves. Take, for example, F&O columnist Jonathan Manthorpe's column in May, about Vancouver real estate and corrupt money from mainland China. The Vacuously Vain column went "viral," boosted by mentions from the Economist to academic urban planning journals to online media in Oz. It's our
- [Paying homage to Hiroshima and Nagasaki's dead, in images](https://canadianjournalist.ca/paying-homage-to-hiroshima-and-nagasakis-dead-in-images/) - On August 6, 1945 the United States dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, killing about 140,000 by the end of the year in a city of 350,000 residents in the world's first nuclear attack. Three days later, a second atomic bomb was dropped on Nagasaki. Inspired by shadows which were scorched into streets, walls
- [Matters of Facts, and Opinions this week](https://canadianjournalist.ca/matters-of-facts-and-opinions-this-week/) - Photo-essay: Old Traditions, New Pastures: Portugal’s last shepherds (unlocked)* Photographer Rafael Marchante, of Reuters, accompanied a flock of sheep and goats from the Portuguese region of Seia during the first three days of ascent, living alongside some of the last shepherds who preserve this ancient tradition. Modern-day shepherds may have mobile phones to keep in touch with
- [New and Noteworthy on F&O: from the War of 1812 to Sheep Hotspots](https://canadianjournalist.ca/new-and-noteworthy-on-fo-from-the-war-of-1812-to-sheep-hotspots/) - Two centuries ago today warfare between Great Britain and America came to its legal end, with the ratification of the The Treaty of Ghent on February 16, 1815. Writes F&O Thoughtlines columnist Jim McNiven in the first of a three-part series on the War of 1812: The War of 1812 was fought by the incompetent against
- [From the Tour de France to invasions: Facts and Opinions this Week](https://canadianjournalist.ca/from-the-tour-de-france-to-invasions-facts-and-opinions-this-week/) - The stories that mattered to us this week range from the passing of EL Doctorow to invasions -- the army of King Crabs descending on Antarctica and the British invasion of American pop. We feature a photographer's view of the Tour de France, and an expert examination of how American psychologists colluded in torture. F&O
- [Great Reads, Gripping Images: Facts and Opinions this Week](https://canadianjournalist.ca/great-reads-gripping-images-facts-and-opinions-this-week/) - It's been, as it often is in these times, a heavy week in the world -- and so let's begin on the lighter side of life. We offer a gorgeous photo essay about an Italian revival of silk worms, Brian Brennan's Brief Encounter column with Barry Morse, and Jim McNiven's baseball yarn. An Italian
- [Pluto: Notably quotable](https://canadianjournalist.ca/pluto-notably-quotable/) - On Tuesday July 14 the New Horizons passed the dwarf planet Pluto in the Kuiper Belt, capturing our first images of an object named for an underworld god but until now perhaps best known as the name of a cartoon dog. What is so exciting about Pluto? British Professor of Planetary and Space Sciences Monica Grady answers
- [F&O Monday headlines](https://canadianjournalist.ca/fo-monday-headlines/) - When the earth shakes under our feet we flee click-bait sites to seek informed, smart analysis. Suggestions for authoritative information on today's breaking news: On Greece and the European Union: Wire service reporting is often as neutral as it gets. Here's Reuters: Greek Debt Crisis 2015, Live updates on the debt crisis in Greece. For
- [Facts and Opinions that matter this week](https://canadianjournalist.ca/facts-and-opinions-that-matter-this-week-3/) - Among the many items that caught our attention this week was the award of a Canadian stamp to short story master Alice Munro, winner of the 2013 Nobel Prize in Literature. The stamp was released on Monro's birthday, July 10. It features a photograph of the writer by her daughter Sheila, a sample
- [Facts and Opinions of the week](https://canadianjournalist.ca/facts-and-opinions-of-the-week/) - There is no shortage of villains in this Greek tragedy, writes Jonathan Manthorpe, as Greece and Europe brace themselves for the Greek referendum on Sunday. "It hasn’t helped matters that the advent of the euro has been a huge boon for the EU’s industrialized economies," he adds. Read his new column, The Greek tragedy: a
- [Journalism that Matters: Greece](https://canadianjournalist.ca/journalism-that-matters-greece/) - The world is holding its breath with Greece on the knife-edge deadline on its €1.6 billion loan repayment due to the IMF. its stalemate with its international creditors, and upcoming referendum, could make Greece the first advanced economy to default to the fund in its 71-year history. It might also be the first nation to benefit from crowd-funding,
- [Facts and Opinions that matter this week](https://canadianjournalist.ca/facts-and-opinions-that-matter-this-week-2/) - Here is F&O's lineup of good reads, for your weekend lingering, or to launch the new week with information that matters. New Reports: Pope Francis throws down the gauntlet On eve of encyclical, Pope Francis appeals for "our ruined" planet. Our package on the Magna Carta's 800th anniversary: Enduring freedoms; British royals return to Runnymede; Fundamentally a financial peace
- [Save our "ruined planet," urges Pope Francis](https://canadianjournalist.ca/save-our-ruined-planet-urges-pope-francis/) - Pope Francis, on the eve of the most contested papal writing in half a century, said on Wednesday that all should help to save “our ruined” planet and asked critics to read his encyclical with an open spirit. The document is the Church’s most controversial since Pope Paul VI’s 1968 encyclical Humanae Vitae enshrined
- [The Magna Carta at 800: Who, What, When, Why, How.](https://canadianjournalist.ca/the-magna-carta-at-800-who-what-when-why-how/) - Magna Carta: the 800th anniversary of a “Great Charter” that changed the world The rule of law was established at Runnymede, England, on June 15, 1215, via the Magna Carta. As well as clipping the wings of a tyrannical and erratic ruler, the signing of that “Great Charter” inspired and shaped the United Kingdom’s constitution
- [Spinning into a northern summer: Facts and Opinions that matter](https://canadianjournalist.ca/spinning-into-a-northern-summer-facts-and-opinions-that-matter/) - As we spin into a northern summer, F&O presents a rich reading smorgasbord for the end of one week and the beginning of another. Dispatches -- in Science, Justice, Geo, and Publica -- explore how former IMF head Strauss-Kahn was acquitted in French vice trial, consider research suggesting potentially toxic residues are left in the brain from
- [New Facts and Opinions that matter](https://canadianjournalist.ca/new-facts-and-opinions-that-matter/) - New on F&O this week: Flight Out of Ethiopia, by international affairs analyst Jonathan Manthorpe (paywall) This week’s riots by thousands of Ethiopian Jews in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv mark the latest episode in a drama that stretches back well over 3,000 years, and 24 years after Operation Solomon, one of the most extraordinarily successful rescue
- [Omar Khadr's next life ](https://canadianjournalist.ca/omar-khadrs-next-life/) - "Abused child." "Child soldier." "Brainwashed boy." "Terrorist." "Killer." "Guantánamo prisoner." "Victim of torture." "War criminal." "The only child soldier put on trial in modern history." On Thursday Omar Khadr, 28, launched the next of his many lives: "Free man -- with conditions." Born in Canada, Khadr was taken as a child to Afghanistan by his father, to fight
- [UK Election primer](https://canadianjournalist.ca/uk-election-primer/) - By Louise Thompson, University of SurreyMay 7, 2015 What is Britain voting for on May 7? Britain is voting for a new parliament, and, by extension, a new government. The election will decide the composition of the House of Commons, and ultimately, who will be prime minister. At the same time, there will be elections for
- [Rachel Notley was born to lead Alberta NDP](https://canadianjournalist.ca/rachel-notley-was-born-to-lead-alberta-ndp/) - Alberta is once again the New Jerusalem, writes historian, author and F&O columnist Brian Brennan. An excerpt of his dispatch: Alberta, the home province of Conservative Prime Minister Stephen Harper, has been viewed for 80 years – ever since the right-wing Social Credit Party was elected in 1935 – as Canada’s bastion of rock-ribbed conservatism. Or,
- [Alberta election: is change in the wind?](https://canadianjournalist.ca/alberta-election-is-change-in-the-wind/) - Could Alberta be the bellwether for shifting politics in North America's oil patch communities? Alberta citizens vote in a provincial election today. Alberta -- world famous as home of the oil sands -- has been ruled by the Progressive Conservative party for more than four decades, and it is the base of Canada's hard-right
- [Fracking:  Canada's top court to review Alberta’s duty to citizens](https://canadianjournalist.ca/fracking-canadas-top-court-to-review-albertas-duty-to-citizens/) - By Chris Wood Does a Canadian provincial government have any responsibility to protect your natural security? Nope. Nada. Rien. It can pretty much do as it likes, wrecking your water and any other part of the environment that it likes in the process. And you can just go pound sand. That, in non-legal language, was
- [New Facts and Opinions this week](https://canadianjournalist.ca/new-facts-and-opinions-this-week/) - If Facts and Opinions were published on old-fashioned print, we'd be selling a thick, heavy book on newsstands this week -- glossy pages packed with photos and scintillating text plus, given the prohibitive costs of print, scads of advertising to sway your minds and empty your wallets. Instead, F&O is a digital journal, non-partisan, owned
- [Matters of Media](https://canadianjournalist.ca/what-matters-in-media/) - What's new in media matters: Charlie Hebdo; the state of American media; attacks on the press; and Jon Stewart's next mission. The illustrations of Muhammad, which sparked such incendiary controversy by Muslims whose faith prohibits images of their prophet, may have run their course in the French satirical publication Charlie Hebdo. Extremists apparently protesting the illustrations
- [Tesla claims new battery is world-changing](https://canadianjournalist.ca/tesla-claims-new-battery-is-world-changing/) - To hear the company chief tell it, Tesla's new battery will change the world. Tesla Motors Inc. CEO Elon Musk announced the release, at an event live-streamed online, of a new Tesla battery design he described as "like a beautiful sculpture on a wall," and of a scalable technology Musk said is capable of providing
- [Nepal: Facts, Opinions, and an unforgettable video](https://canadianjournalist.ca/nepal-facts-opinions-and-an-unforgettable-video/) - Nepal’s Predictable Agony. By Deborah Jones The massive earthquake that shattered Nepal on April 25, 20115, came as no surprise to anyone. The country sits atop one of the world’s most seismically dangerous places. There have been countless warnings about Nepal’s rickety infrastructure, haphazard housing, lax building codes, and rampant urban development. There was even
- [New on Facts and Opinions](https://canadianjournalist.ca/11026/) - New on F&O this week: VERBATIM: The prescriptive Happiness Report. By Michael Sasges The recently released World Happiness Report 2015 both describes and prescribes. The people of Togo and Burundi and Syria and Benin and Rwanda are the unhappiest people in the world, and the people of Switzerland and Iceland and Denmark and Norway and
- [Our Pale Blue Dot](https://canadianjournalist.ca/our-pale-blue-dot/) - "There is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves" -- Carl Sagan. Happy Earth Day.
- [Facts, opinions, and more](https://canadianjournalist.ca/facts-opinions-and-more/) - An international group of jurists recently launched the Oslo Principles on Global Climate Change Obligations. The jurists, from Brazil, China, India, the United States and the Netherlands, propose a set of principles based on human rights laws to force governments to act on climate change. The Netherlands was one of the first test sites for the
- [On Canada's Charter, and reading for the weekend](https://canadianjournalist.ca/on-canadas-charter-and-reading-for-the-weekend/) - Today is the anniversary of Canada’s Charter of Rights and Freedoms. When I was a young teen I was enthralled with flying, so enthralled that I worked late nights as a convenience store cashier to pay for ground school and flying lessons. I was pretty good at them; I finished ground school at age 15.
- [Jean Vanier of the Big Questions wins Templeton Prize](https://canadianjournalist.ca/jean-vanier-of-the-big-questions-wins-templeton-prize/) - In 1964 in France, Jean Vanier invited two disabled men into his home and life, as friends. It was the start of L'Arche, a global network of communities in which people with and without disabilities live and work together. Today, Vanier received the 2015 Templeton Prize, sometimes called the equivalent of the Nobel Prize, in
- [Suit by Wikimedia and partners targets American mass surveillance](https://canadianjournalist.ca/suit-by-wikimedia-and-partners-targets-american-mass-surveillance/) - A law suit aimed at mass surveillance was filed Tuesday against America's National Security Agency and Department of Justice, by the Wikimedia Foundation and eight other complainants. "The surveillance exceeds the scope of the authority that Congress provided in the FISA Amendments Act of 2008 (“FAA”) and violates the First and Fourth Amendments," stated the suit,
- [New this week on F&O](https://canadianjournalist.ca/new-this-week-on-fo/) - In Commentary: A new age of ignorance, by Tom Regan Ordinarily, it would be laughable for a U.S. Republican senator to throw a snowball in the chamber, as did climate change denier James Inhofe, and say that recent cold temperatures in Washington, D.C., prove that climate change was a hoax. But Inhofe is the head
- [New on F&O: Boko Haram; press freedom; Tennessee Williams, and more](https://canadianjournalist.ca/new-on-f-press-freedom-tennessee-williams-and-more/) - Boko Haram heaps electoral bad luck on Goodluck Jonathan, by Jonathan Manthorpe (Paywall) Reports from the Nigerian military that they have launched a major offensive against Boko Haram, killed 300 of the group’s fighters and recaptured 11 towns and villages should be treated with skepticism and caution. Freedom of the press ain’t so
- [Anwar Ibrahim and a campaign of political vilification in Malaysia](https://canadianjournalist.ca/anwar-ibrahim-and-a-campaign-of-political-vilification-in-malaysia/) - Malaysia’s Anwar Ibrahim is showing signs of eccentricity and paranoia, notes International Affairs columnist Jonathan Manthorpe. It's not surprising -- but it is also true that he will have wrought real change. An excerpt of Manthorpe's new column, Co-opted judiciary sentences Malaysia’s Anwar Ibrahim to 5 years: Two of the most prominent finance ministers of modern times were in
- [Brief Encounter with a child prodigy pianist-turned-comedian](https://canadianjournalist.ca/brief-encounter-with-a-child-prodigy-pianist-turned-comedian/) - When Arts columnist Brian Brennan asked the then 66-year-old Victor Borge why he continued to maintain a heavy touring schedule despite a health problem that had forced him to temporarily stop performing, the Danish-born entertainer had a simple answer: "I travel because people don't come to me." An excerpt of Brennan's Brief Encounters column, The clown prince
- [Noteworthy: media on my mind](https://canadianjournalist.ca/noteworthy-media-on-my-mind/) - It's been a helluva year so far in the media world, which began with the slaughter of 12 people, including 10 journalists, outside the office of Charlie Hebdo in January, as part of a wider attack by extremists in Paris. Journalism lost its most articulate and fiercest champion Thursday night, with the death of David
- [New waterworks designs deliver larger environmental change](https://canadianjournalist.ca/new-waterworks-designs-deliver-larger-environmental-change/) - The designers and operators of water infrastructure have been forced, in a cost-cutting era for public works, to think outside the pipe, writes Natural Security columnist Chris Wood. And what they've learned hold lessons for all of us. An excerpt of Wood's new column, Thinking Outside the Pipe: Reflections on flood season in the Pacific Northwest: Infrastructure is an
- [Brian Brennan: a Brief Encounter with Sophia Loren](https://canadianjournalist.ca/brian-brennan-a-brief-encounter-with-sophia-loren/) - Arts columnist Brian Brennan was told he couldn't ask Sophia Loren about the sentence she served in a Naples prison for tax evasion. But he went ahead and asked anyhow, and received a surprising answer. An excerpt of Brennan's Brief Encounters column, Absolutely Fabulous: Sophia Loren: Sophia Loren hardly ever talked to reporters, and
- [Is the secret safe on an arms deal, murders, bribery and torture?](https://canadianjournalist.ca/is-the-secret-safe-on-an-arms-deal-murders-bribery-and-torture/) - At least nine people have died under mysterious or unexplained circumstances in what International Affairs columnist Jonathan Manthorpe calls "one of the most sordid arms dealing, murder and bribery scandals in modern French and Taiwanese history." An excerpt of his new column, Truth of Franco-Taiwanese bribery scandal dies with fugitive arms-broker: The reported death in Britain of
- [Calgary's Naheed Nenshi first in World Mayor prize](https://canadianjournalist.ca/calgarys-naheed-nenshi-first-in-world-mayor-prize/) - Naheed Nenshi, mayor of Calgary, Alberta, was awarded first place Tuesday in the 2014 World Mayor Prize, by the City Mayor Foundation, an international think tank. Said the World Mayor organization in its announcement: Calgary Mayor Naheed Nenshi, the winner of the 2014 World Mayor Prize, is the most admired mayor of any large Canadian city.
- [A football reveals the circus of American politics](https://canadianjournalist.ca/a-football-reveals-the-circus-of-american-politics/) - Americans have, as a society, become obsessed with trivial pursuits, writes columnist Tom Regan. That's not necessarily new -- but the advent of the Internet and social media has kicked this cultural trait into hyper-drive. An excerpt of his new Seeking Orenda column, Bread,circuses and a deflated football This is where we have come to. In the
- [Have Somalia's lessons, hard-learned, have finally taken?](https://canadianjournalist.ca/have-somalias-lessons-hard-learned-have-finally-taken/) - The only war in which Jonathan Manthorpe felt compelled to hire bodyguards was in Somalia. Lessons were learned the hard way in Somalia’s last quarter century, but as a glimmer of light now illuminates the country, at last. An excerpt of his latest International Affairs column, After almost 25 years, a glimmer of light in the
- [Blues pioneer Long John Baldry led the British greats](https://canadianjournalist.ca/blues-pioneer-long-john-baldry-led-the-british-greats/) - Long John Baldry was the British blue-eyed blues pioneer who taught Mick Jagger, Rod Stewart and Elton John how to sing blues-based rock 'n' roll. But, as s Arts columnist Brian Brennan reports in his new time capsule piece, Baldry got left behind when Jagger, Stewart and John went off to the United States to become rich and
- [Auschwitz: 70 years after a death factory is liberated](https://canadianjournalist.ca/auschwitz-70-years-after-a-death-factory-is-liberated/) - Today marks the 70th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau, when Soviet troops freed the survivors of the Nazi death factory. More than one million people were murdered at Auschwitz, most of them Jews. Read Auschwitz: ‛It took from three to 15 minutes to kill the people. The "Verbatim" feature is Facts and Opinions copy editor Michael Sasges' report:
- [Who are you calling "American People?"](https://canadianjournalist.ca/who-are-you-calling-american-people/) - 'The American people' do not exist, writes Tom Regan, author of F&O's Seeking Orenda column. "They are as much of a myth as Sasquatch, Area 51, Nigerian yellow cake, and the Tooth Fairy." An excerpt of his new column, Why the ‘American people do not exist: It's wacky season in Washington once again. Wacky season
- [Today's election could change Greece -- and Europe](https://canadianjournalist.ca/todays-election-could-change-greece-and-europe/) - For years the world has watched Greece, the cradle of democracy, implode in protests and economic decline. Indebted Greece has long been ill-served by its political and business leaders, and lately beholden to creditors bent on austerity. And today when the Greek people go to the polls in a general election -- if most pundits
- [Rabbie Burns, och aye](https://canadianjournalist.ca/rabbie-burns-och-aye/) - On January 25, say Scotch drinkers the world over, we are all Scottish. Today's the birthday of Robert Burns, the Scottish bard and one of the first Romantic poets. 'tis as good an excuse as any to pour a dram of single malt. (Neat, with a splash of water.) As a half-Scot, the words of Rabbie
- [When will the penny drop at Davos?](https://canadianjournalist.ca/when-will-the-penny-drop-at-davos/) - It’s not unusual for environmental risk to come up at the World Economic Forum, held this month in Davos, notes Natural Security columnist Chris Wood. "What appears to be harder for the high-net-worth and high-power-quotient individuals meeting in the Alps to accept, is that the rising incidence, mounting costs and escalating risk of natural security failures
- [Militant workers China's new nightmare](https://canadianjournalist.ca/militant-workers-chinas-new-nightmare/) - China's workers are not convinced by their government's new stance, that low economic growth is "normal." It's a nightmarish scenario for China, warns International Affairs columnist Jonathan Manthorpe in his new column, Labour unrest surges as China's economy slows. An excerpt: As China’s economy slows to a crawl, the Communist Party is facing one of its worst nightmares:
- [New Facts, and some Opinions](https://canadianjournalist.ca/new-facts-and-some-opinions/) - A spat of major new global reports on health, climate, and inequality contain warnings that can be met only by joint action, the kind of community response that has fallen out of favour lately in much of the West. Today Oxfam released, in the lead up to the World Economic Forum that starts Wednesday in Davos,
- [The Saudi King, Abdullah, is Dead](https://canadianjournalist.ca/the-saudi-king-abdullah-is-dead/) - The death today of King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia sets in motion what will be one of the most important successions in that country and the Middle East for many years. It is an involved and complex process involving at least two generations and many ambitious figures in a royal family that includes over 10,000
- [Noteworthy: Davos, Ebola, media matters](https://canadianjournalist.ca/noteworthy-davos-ebola-media-matters/) - The World Economic Forum, AKA the "annual summit for the one per cent," kicks off in Davos-Klosters, Switzerland, tomorrow. Subjects range from bicycles for African kids to global trade, Ebola to climate change, "honey laundering" to oil markets. Switzerland's tourism industry is delighted at the publicity. Even China's premier will be there. For the rest of us, well,
- [Artists call for ban on fracking near national park](https://canadianjournalist.ca/artists-call-for-ban-on-fracking-near-national-park/) - Thirty two well known artists sent an open letter to Canadian Prime Minster Stephen Harper, and Newfoundland & Labrador Premier Paul Davis, calling on them to establish a permanent buffer zone free of industrial activity around Gros Morn National Park and UNESCO World Heritage Site on the west coast of the island of Newfoundland.
- [Noteworthy: prescriptions on inequality](https://canadianjournalist.ca/noteworthy-prescriptions-on-inequality/) - Worth reading: A joint American-British report today prescribed new policies aimed at reducing the growing gulf between haves and have-nots in Western democracies, using case studies from several countries. The middle class has not fared well lately in advanced economies roiled by globalization, technological change and a shift in economic power from people to corporations, said
- [Je Suis Charlie](https://canadianjournalist.ca/je-suis-charlie/) - Scorecard, Wednesday, Jan. 7: Pen - 0. Sword - 12, and counting. Masked gunmen with AK47s and a rocket launcher killed at least 10 journalists and two police officers early Wednesday at the offices of Charlie Hebdo, a satirical newspaper that had been under police protection since extremists firebombed it in 2011. French leader François Hollande declared
- [Research adds a weapon in our war between germs and drugs](https://canadianjournalist.ca/research-adds-a-weapon-in-our-war-between-germs-and-drugs/) - A research breakthrough in a report in Nature this week, A new antibiotic kills pathogens without detectable resistance, may turn out to be the biggest and most hopeful medical news of the year. It's been decades since scientists made significant progress on new weapons against deadly microbes. Antibiotics have been, numerous studies show, over-used and abused to the
- [New on F&O: From Peak Civilization to Birdman](https://canadianjournalist.ca/9905/) - Are We at Peak Civilization? By Chris Wood (subscription required) Will 2015 be the end of our capitalist consumer cornucopia world? That world cannot go on. And as some bright person once said (the words are variously attributed to Henry Ford and economist Herb Stein): “What cannot go on, will stop.” The ultimate foundation of that
- [Saudi Arabia upheaval will soon rock Middle East and beyond](https://canadianjournalist.ca/saudi-arabia-upheaval-will-soon-rock-middle-east-and-beyond/) - Politics are heating up in Saudi Arabia, a key player in the three-cornered contest in the Middle East between modernity, theocracy and absolutism, a contest waged between warring proxies in Iraq, Syria, Yemen and Libya, and felt in corners of the world from Paris to Nigeria. International Affairs columnist Jonathan Manthorpe notes that, like many countries of
- [John Frankenheimer: Emmys, enthusiasm, and energy](https://canadianjournalist.ca/john-frankenheimer-emmys-enthusiasm-and-energy/) - Film director John Frankenheimer was often at odds with Hollywood producers because he insisted on making movies for artistic rather than commercial reasons. But, as Arts columnist Brian Brennan reports, he later found his niche in television. An excerpt of Brennan’s Brief Encounters column, Bucking Hollywood’s Commercial Trend: John Frankenheimer: The movie was called The Fourth War. It
- [New on F&O](https://canadianjournalist.ca/9834/) - Let the Good Times Roll. By Jim McNiven The American and Canadian economies will do well this next year, especially the American. Their consumers, who represent over 70% of that economy’s GDP, should begin to shed their uncertainties and the Federal Reserve won’t raise interest rates. The Canadian economy will go into an election
- [Value for money: journalism and politics](https://canadianjournalist.ca/value-for-money-journalism-and-politics/) - Everybody is asking for money this week, to beat year-end deadlines. It's exhausting. As well as giving money that works sideways at best -- to charities and NGOs, from conservative think tanks to environmental groups -- I wish more people would be straightforward and donate directly. In my books, the best value is in *real*
- [Earth, from space, in an unforgettable timelapse](https://canadianjournalist.ca/earth-from-space-in-an-unforgettable-timelapse/) - Noteworthy: Watch earth roll by via the lens of European Space Agency astronaut Alexander Gerst, in a six-minute time-lapse comprised of 12 500 images. Gerst captured the photos during a six-month Blue Dot mission on the International Space Station.
- [R.I.P., Joe Cocker](https://canadianjournalist.ca/r-i-p-joe-cocker/)
- [F&O's lineup of Facts and Opinions](https://canadianjournalist.ca/new-on-facts-and-opinions/) - FEATURES: Newfoundland's Offshore Account. Photo-essay by Greg Locke/F&O (subscription*) The few oilfields off the coast of Newfoundland, Canada, in the Northwest Atlantic, are small compared to the hundreds of producing wells in the North Sea and Gulf of Mexico, but the royalties not only kept Canada’s historically-impoverished and remote eastern province from bankruptcy, but propelled it
- [eReaders are the enemies of sleep](https://canadianjournalist.ca/ereaders-are-the-enemies-of-sleep/) - If you receive gifts of e-books in your virtual Christmas stocking this year, you might want to avoid reading them before bedtime. Worldwide research shows that exposure to electronic light in the hour before bedtime can impair sleep and alertness the next day, and may have a long-term impact on health, performance and safety. The
- [The back story behind New York's fracking ban](https://canadianjournalist.ca/the-back-story-behind-new-yorks-fracking-ban/) - The back story behind New York's fracking ban
- [Manthorpe on the International Criminal Court: a hobbled creature](https://canadianjournalist.ca/manthorpe-on-the-international-criminal-court-a-hobbled-creature/) - The International Criminal Court is a "hobbled creature," unable to bring to justice perpetrators of crimes against humanity, writes International Affairs columnist Jonathan Manthorpe’s. It's under-resourced, shunned by China, Russia, and America, and under attack by critics with much to gain who say it's a tool of western neo-colonialism, and biased against Africa. An excerpt of Manthorpe's new
- [An atheist praises Pope Francis](https://canadianjournalist.ca/an-atheist-praises-pope-francis/) - Facts and Opinions’ Seeking Orenda columnist Tom Regan is a fan of Pope Francis. Regan is an atheist. He explains in his column, My atheist fan letter to Pope Francis. An excerpt: When you’re an atheist you don’t spend much time thinking about “important” religious figures. Most of them are just too silly to care about. Pat Robertson
- [Music videos were the lasting legacy of the Monkees' Michael Nesmith](https://canadianjournalist.ca/music-videos-were-the-lasting-legacy-of-the-monkees-michael-nesmith/) - Michael Nesmith achieved fame as a member of the Monkees during the 1960s. But as Arts columnist Brian Brennan reports, he left a more lasting impact as the technological genius who developed the concept of music videos. An excerpt of Brennan’s Brief Encounters column, Hey, Hey We’re the Monkees: Michael Nesmith: According to the gossip of the day,
- [On the psychology of materialism, and Christmas](https://canadianjournalist.ca/on-the-psychology-of-materialism-and-christmas/) - Tim Kasser, an American psychology professor who specializes in materialism and well being, has some thoughts on consumerism, Christmas, and well-being. On why materialism is sometimes considered a negative, and affects people differently: To be materialistic means to have values that put a relatively high priority on making a lot of money and having many
- [Opinion: From Lima, a Munich moment -- Chris Wood](https://canadianjournalist.ca/from-lima-a-munich-moment-chris-wood/) - By Chris Wood, NATURAL SECURITY opinion columnist There’s no pleasure in saying, ‘I told you so,” over the Lima climate conference. Unhappily, I did. International delegates meeting in the Peruvian capital reached a beyond-last-minute ‘agreement’ on reducing climate-disruptive greenhouse emissions by, in essence, kicking all the hard goals down the road and leaving the maximum
- [Lima Accord announced on climate](https://canadianjournalist.ca/lima-accord-announced-on-climate/) - Every country would be required to submit a plan to reduce greenhouse gas emissions under the Lima Accord announced Sunday at global climate talks in Peru. The Lima talks aimed to set ground rules for a global climate deal between world leaders meeting late next year in Paris. That deal would kick in after 2020. Negotiators
- [Boris Johnson: schemer or charmer? -- Manthorpe](https://canadianjournalist.ca/boris-johnson-schemer-or-charmer-manthorpe/) - British Conservatives and the public must soon decide whether Boris Johnson is as he portrays himself — a charming Bertie Wooster, whose eccentricity masks a proven ability at administration as Mayor of London – or someone a good deal more scheming and sinister. An excerpt of International Affairs columnist Jonathan Manthorpe's new column, The Boris Show heads
- [A brief encounter with Brian Moore](https://canadianjournalist.ca/a-brief-encounter-with-brian-moore/) - At age 60, Irish writer Brian Moore decided to switch from novels to plays. However, as Arts columnist Brian Brennan reports, it was an experiment not destined to be repeated. An excerpt of Brennan’s Brief Encounters column, A Prolific Novelist on Diverse Themes: Brian Moore (subscription needed): After 25 years of writing novels, Brian Moore was trying
- [Report released on CIA torture](https://canadianjournalist.ca/9408/) - Stark findings of torture and of the CIA misleading officials and the public are among the conclusions of a report released today by the outgoing Democrats on the United States Senate Select Committee on Intelligence. As part of our Verbatim series, F&O provides a brief overview, selected excerpts, and links to the original report and
- [Noteworthy ](https://canadianjournalist.ca/noteworthy/) - F&O's Noteworthy series offers our picks of stories on the Internet: stories worth your while amid the torrent of infotainment. This week: For Firestone and Liberia, A Secret History Unearthed -- long form journalism By T. Christian Miller and Jonathan Jones, ProPublica, and PBS Frontline A note from the American editors on this story: Uncovering buried
- [Facts and Opinions that matter this week](https://canadianjournalist.ca/facts-and-opinions-that-matter-this-week/) - Facts and Opinions this week features two elegant pieces about people who mattered in the worlds of sports and music: E. Kaye Fulton's tribute to "glorious gentleman" Jean Béliveau (open), and Brian Brennan's Brief Encounter with conductor Mario Bernardi, who veered off the beaten path (subscription). From the academy, don't miss the essay by economist Warwick Smith, who won
- [Tom Regan on race, guns, and militarized death in America](https://canadianjournalist.ca/tom-regan-on-race-guns-and-militarized-death-in-america/) - Facts and Opinions' Seeking Orenda columnist Tom Regan writes today on Why the United States is a perilous country for a young man, black or white. An excerpt of his new column: There’s a deadly virus in the United States. Much more deadly than Ebola. (Two people have died of Ebola in this country.) The virus
- [On conductor Mario Bernardi, whose notes were "crystal clear, like pearls."](https://canadianjournalist.ca/on-conductor-mario-bernardi-whose-notes-were-crystal-clear-like-pearls/) - Canadian conductor Mario Bernardi had a simple formula for making a small orchestra sound large. Every instrument should be impeccably tuned so that the notes are "crystal clear, like pearls,” he told Arts columnist Brian Brennan. “That gives you the sense of a big sound without the quantity.” An excerpt of Brennan’s Brief Encounters column,
- [A dying king, a hated crown prince, and Thailand in turmoil](https://canadianjournalist.ca/a-dying-king-a-hated-crown-prince-and-thailand-in-turmoil/) - The succession of the next royal head of Thailand is a tale of palace intrigue fit for a king. Here is an excerpt of International Affairs columnist Jonathan Manthorpe's new column, Uneasy lies the head that wears Thailand’s Crown: It’s a story that would have William Shakespeare licking his lips and sharpening his quill. The tale has
- [Noteworthy: antibiotics and superbugs](https://canadianjournalist.ca/noteworthy-antibiotics-and-superbugs/) - Superbugs, caused by wanton use of antibiotics, have the potential to change human civilization: by erasing the gains made in fighting bacterial disease since WWII, destroying many of our weapons against cancer, killing infants and our injured, rendering hospitals even more dangerous. The New York Times reports on superbugs in India this week. Reading it
- [Noteworthy: stories that matter](https://canadianjournalist.ca/recommended-stories-that-matter/) - So little time, so many stories. How to find worthy tales? Friends of F&O, apparently pressed for time, who know we spend our days scanning global media, asked us to recommend the odd item. Sure thing. And, just as F&O is about boutique instead of supermarket journalism, our recommendations are made with the knowledge we're all saturated
- [Ending AIDS by 2030: The doctor who found the key ](https://canadianjournalist.ca/ending-aids-by-2030-the-doctor-who-found-the-key/) - On World Aids Day today, Rod Mickleburgh profiled Julio Montaner, the Argentine/Canada doctor who's led the successful fight against HIV/AIDS using harm reduction strategies. The United Nations agency UNAIDS said in a release its goal of "ending the AIDS epidemic by 2030 is possible, but only by closing the gap between people who have access to
- [On Advent, John Mason Neale, and a winter hymn ](https://canadianjournalist.ca/on-advent-john-mason-neale-and-a-winter-hymn/) - The period Christians call Advent begins Sunday November 30. In countries with Christian populations pop music increasingly gives way to religious hymns, leading up to Christmas. Michael Sasges gave thought to one of the season's most evocative pieces, O Come, O Come, Emmanuel. Here's an excerpt of his story about John Mason Neale -- On reading
- [One Zimbabwe success story](https://canadianjournalist.ca/one-zimbabwe-success-story/) - In great contrast to the Borgia world of Zimbabwe’s First Lady, Grace Mugabe — the subject of last week's column by International Affairs columnist Jonathan Manthorpe — is the skill, imagination, talent, determination and sheer hard work that ordinary Africans have to employ to survive and succeed. Manthorpe offers a tale, One man’s thrust for survival in Mugabe’s
- [Vera Lynn: "It was simply my duty to keep on singing.”](https://canadianjournalist.ca/vera-lynn-it-was-simply-my-duty-to-keep-on-singing/) - Vera Lynn achieved international fame with the songs she made popular on the radio during the Second World War. Arts columnist Brian Brennan reports in his new time capsule piece that she wanted to try other kinds of music after the war. But the fans wouldn't hear of it. An excerpt of Brennan's Brief Encounters column, There’ll
- [Black-and-Blues Friday](https://canadianjournalist.ca/black-and-blues-friday/) - It seems that "Gray Thursday" is the new name for the fourth Thursday of November each year in the United States. The name marks the re-purposing of a traditional event -- from a communal giving of thanks, to shopping. Shopping for sale items is well on its way to supplanting America's traditional harvest festival, and Gray
- [On Ferguson, Darren Wilson, and Michael Brown](https://canadianjournalist.ca/on-ferguson-darren-wilson-and-michael-brown/) - Ferguson, Missouri, burst into flames after a grand jury found no cause to indict police officer Darren Wilson in the shooting death of teenager Michael Brown on August 9. Some 700 National Guard troops were immediately summoned, with 2,200 reinforcements added Tuesday, to quell rioting. But the story of Ferguson is deceptively simple, and beguiling: a tale of
- [Welcome Aboard](https://canadianjournalist.ca/welcome-aboard/) - Facts and Opinions warmly welcomes two new journalists aboard our adventure: Tom Regan, on the eastern seaboard of the United States, and Michael Sasges, on Canada's West Coast. Michael Sasges is F&O's new copy editor. He also contributes occasional Verbatim and other reports, and essays. A retired Canadian newspaperman, Mike Sasges reads and writes in Vancouver and in one
- [Manthorpe on Gucci Grace, Zimbabwe's "most reviled and hated woman" ](https://canadianjournalist.ca/manthorpe-on-gucci-grace-zimbabwes-most-reviled-and-hated-woman/) - In 1996, the year Robert Mugabe married Grace Goreraza, life for the majority of Zimbabweans was probably the best it ever had been, or was to be since, writes International Affairs columnist Jonathan Manthorpe. Many give credit for country's good times to Mugabe's late wife Sally. Since then, the country has been in free fall. "Grace
- [Brennan: Tom Lehrer's common sense gave him a cult following](https://canadianjournalist.ca/brennan-tom-lehrers-common-sense-gave-him-a-cult-following/) - Although musical satirist Tom Lehrer had not been active as a performer and recording artist for 15 years when Arts columnist Brian Brennan met him in 1980, he still had a cult following of enthusiasts who fondly remembered his trenchant observations of 1950s' American life and politics. An excerpt of Brennan's Brief Encounters column, The Media-shy
- [Ursula K. Le Guin on art and "Freedom"](https://canadianjournalist.ca/ursula-k-le-guin-on-art-and-freedom/) - American author Ursula K. Le Guin on Wednesday slammed the U.S. publishing industry's "ignorance and greed," and issued a cri de coeur. She spoke out for artists in a world where "hard times are coming" and writers will be needed to offer hope and freedom, and "see through our fear-stricken society and its obsessive technologies to
- [Vignette: On candour, scams, and shame](https://canadianjournalist.ca/vignette-on-candour-scams-and-shame/) - Caller with Indian accent, call centre noise in background: "Hello, is this "Mrs. Kennedy?" Me: who's calling please? (No "Mrs. Kennedy" lives in my house. It's a name used almost exclusively by scammers.) Scammer: "This is Amal calling from the technical department, about your computer Windows." Me: "Oh for Pete's sake, aren't you ashamed of
- [Darts, bitters and Granny Admirers -- Oh, My](https://canadianjournalist.ca/darts-bitters-and-granny-sex-oh-my/) - Mature babes: Granny admirers more overt in the UK is the title of Penney Kome's hilarious new work for F&O's Loose Leaf column. It's a story prompted by a startling experience in a London pub, and while title almost says it all, here is an excerpt: Stepping up to the line to throw my three darts, I sank
- [A Week of Facts and Opinions](https://canadianjournalist.ca/a-week-of-facts-and-opinions/) - Our schedule at Facts and Opinions in the past week has been packed, with a special series each on the fall of the Berlin Wall and Remembrance/Armistice Day, in addition to our ongoing work. Here's our stellar lineup, below. Next week, look for new columns by Jim McNiven, Tom Regan and Jonathan Manthorpe, and a careful selection of reporting and
- [Tom Regan: Schools should stop planning holidays around religious events](https://canadianjournalist.ca/tom-regan-schools-should-stop-planning-holidays-around-religious-events/) - It’s a mistake to think the use of religious vacation breaks in public schools promote tolerance in any way, argues Tom Regan in his new column, Time to end religious holidays in public schools. An excerpt: Recently the Board of Education in the Virginia suburb of Montgomery County (which is just outside DC) faced a dilemma.
- [Jonathan Manthorpe on Angkor Wat, the Elgin Marbles, and repatriation](https://canadianjournalist.ca/jonathan-manthorpe-on-angkor-wat-the-elgin-marbles-and-repatriation/) - Should the the British Museum or the Louvre in Paris retain collections gathered from all corners of the world, in order to display the entire sweep of human cultural history? Should the great works of humanity be repatriated? International Affairs columnist Jonathan Manthorpe examines the question via cases in Cambodia, Greece, and Canada. An excerpt of his
- [Brian Brennan's time capsule on Glenn Ford](https://canadianjournalist.ca/brian-brennans-time-capsule-on-glenn-ford/) - It was the classic “hurry up and wait” situation when, as Arts columnist Brian Brennan watched, Glenn Ford filmed a brief scene for the 1978 movie, Superman. Part of the problem, Brennan reports in his new time capsule piece, was that Ford couldn’t remember his line. An excerpt of Brennan’s Brief Encounters column, Out of the Saddle, Playing Papa
- [Chris Wood: Look to the books, not diplomacy, for the climate game-changer](https://canadianjournalist.ca/chris-wood-look-to-the-books-not-diplomacy-for-the-climate-game-changer/) - Natural Security columnist Chris Wood is not impressed with this week's much-trumpeted deal between China and the United States. He writes: "optimists greeted with hosannas the announcement that the Presidents Obama of the United States and Xi of China had agreed to a common statement setting out their respective goals to contain and eventually reduce their
- [Rosetta: love astride a comet](https://canadianjournalist.ca/rosetta-love-astride-a-comet/) - The deep-space probe Rosetta set its lander Philae astride a comet today, a historic feat for the European Space Agency -- and for humanity. At 16:03 GMT November 12, the agency announced, scientists in ESA stations in Argentina, Spain and Germany had received word of the landing from Philae. It was a signal from about six billion
- [Focus on Remembrance](https://canadianjournalist.ca/focus-on-remembrance/) - On November 11, 1918, the guns of World War I fell silent on the Western Front. The end of the Great War was, so many participants swore, surely the end of all wars. It was, of course, hubris; less than a generation later most of the world launched itself into World War II. But November
- [Focus on the Berlin Wall](https://canadianjournalist.ca/focus-on-the-berlin-wall/) - Germany, and much of the world, this weekend marked the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. It remains the singular event to symbolize the end of the Cold War. It marked the end of the Iron Curtain between Eastern and Western Europe, and the rise of the new global economic and
- [F&O this Week: From Homeland to Holmes, and why Australia mourns](https://canadianjournalist.ca/fo-this-week/) - Franklin Expedition: "Heart and soul” of HMS Erebus revived By F&O staff Canada’s government has released images of the bell from HMS Erebus, the doomed ship from Britain’s legendary Franklin Expedition, found in Nunavut territory in September. Erebus was named after the Greek god of darkness, whose sire is Chaos. (You might have thought the name would give
- [In the wake of the Berlin Wall -- what if Francis Fukuyama was right?](https://canadianjournalist.ca/in-the-wake-of-the-berlin-wall-what-if-francis-fukuyama-was-right/) - A quarter century ago the Berlin Wall came crashing down, taking the post-WW II world order with it. Beneath all the headlines, the predictions and recapitulations, recriminations and geopolitical events of the last 25 years can be found signals of profound change. Francis Fukuyama's bold prediction that history had ended may have been overly optimistic, writes International
- [The bell of the HMS Erebus resurfaces](https://canadianjournalist.ca/the-bell-of-the-hms-erebus-resurfaces/) - Canada's government released photos today of the bell from HMS Erebus, the doomed ship from the British Franklin Expedition that was discovered in September in Nunavut, Canada. View photos and read our brief here: "Heart and soul" of HMS Erebus revived (free story.)* *You’ll find lots of great free stories inside our site, but much
- [Brian Brennan on Shari Lewis, a woman of many talents](https://canadianjournalist.ca/brian-brennan-on-shari-lewis-a-woman-of-many-talents/) - Shari Lewis made her mark as a talented ventriloquist with a sock puppet named Lamb Chop. But as Arts columnist Brian Brennan discovered when he interviewed her, Lewis had much more going for her talentwise than ventriloquism. An excerpt of Brennan’s latest Brief Encounters column, A Playmate Who Loved Good Music: Shari Lewis (paywall):
- [Obama: The American people sent a message](https://canadianjournalist.ca/obamas-response-the-american-people-sent-a-message/) - The United States, which from afar seems to be in a frenzied, polarized and non-stop election battle, saw the Republican party prevail Tuesday over the Democrats in mid-term elections. The Republicans will now control both houses. For the country that often claims to lead the democratic world, voter turnout was shockingly low: slightly more than
- [Focus on Climate Change](https://canadianjournalist.ca/focus-on-climate-change/) - The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change today published the trailer for a the video of its fifth report, to be released at an international climate meeting in Lima next month. Its message: "We either continue on the path that we are on and possibly face catastrophic climate change, or we listen to the voice of science, and
- [Sherlock Holmes free and "fair game" ](https://canadianjournalist.ca/sherlock-holmes-free-and-fair-game/) - America’s highest court on Monday freed the character of Sherlock Holmes, from copyright restrictions sought by the estate of his late creator Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Holmes is now legally in the public domain, described by a judge as "fair game" for future creators who no longer need worry about paying a licence fee to, or
- [When going to work is a remarkable event](https://canadianjournalist.ca/when-going-to-work-is-a-remarkable-event/) - On Monday, a handful of New York media workers passed their first day in their new workplace, the tower that rose from the World Trade Center killing ground. The Conde Nast employees are the first men and women to occupy one of the tenancies. They, and others, more than rose to the occasion, and posted their historic presence on social media. Some images, from Instagram, follow:
- [IPCC report sounds loudest alarm yet on climate change impacts](https://canadianjournalist.ca/ipcc-report-sounds-loudest-alarm-yet-on-climate-change-impacts/) - Climate change caused by humans will result in food shortages, mass extinctions and flooding, warns the world body of climate experts, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), in its most comprehensive report yet. The report, signed in Bonn today, says the science is now 95 per cent conclusive, that today’s climate change is unprecedented, and warns that
- [The Week at F&O: From snake oil to Dumbledore](https://canadianjournalist.ca/the-week-at-fo-from-snake-oil-to-dumbledore/) - Introducing a new three-part series: The Global Implications of Oil Price Renormalization Part 1: A Quick Look at its History and Technology By Jim McNiven To understand the global oil market, it helps to grasp the history and makeup of the commodity. In North America, from time immemorial, the Indians in the Western Allegheny area
- [Kurdistan could be a silver lining in Middle East quagmire](https://canadianjournalist.ca/kurdistan-could-be-a-silver-lining-in-middle-east-quagmire/) - The siege of Kobani has pushed to the surface some of the internal and external pressures working against the creation of a complete Kurdistan homeland, writes International Affairs columnist Jonathan Manthorpe. But if any good can come of the latest ill-conceived bombing of the Middle East, it would be furthering the cause of Kurdistan. Excerpt of
- [Brian Brennan on Richard Harris, of Camelot and Hogwarts](https://canadianjournalist.ca/brian-brennan-on-richard-harris-of-camelot-and-hogwarts/) - Richard Harris was off the booze and missing it when he starred as King Arthur in a touring production of Camelot. He told Arts columnist Brian Brennan that going back to his native Ireland and not having a drink was like “going to church and not saying a prayer." An excerpt of Brennan’s new Brief Encounters
- [The Week at F&O](https://canadianjournalist.ca/the-week-at-fo/) - The photo above, posted on Twitter by a user named Evanem, is of Cpl. Nathan Cirillo and fellow reservist Brandon Stevenson. The Canadian Forces Reserve soldiers were photographed standing as Honour Guards at the War Memorial in Ottawa, moments before a shooter killed Cpl. Cirillo. The 24-year-old was one of two Canadian soldiers murdered
- [Finding: "Ambition," a film about possibility](https://canadianjournalist.ca/finding-ambition-a-film-about-possibility/) - The audacity of our enterprise can be hard to comprehend, especially when it's scientific, and especially to those of us who struggle with math and physics. That gap is why the arts -- why story telling -- matters so much. And this wondrous seven-minute sci-fi film Ambition, which had its debut in London on Friday
- [Bears, wolves, and salmon for the soul](https://canadianjournalist.ca/bears-wolves-and-salmon-for-the-soul/) - It has been a brutal week, in many of the world's places but most acutely for those of us who live in Canada, washed by a torrent of grief, outrage and increasing bombast over the murders of two Canadian soldiers and a madman's attack on the House of Commons. Perhaps, like me, you will find
- [Calamity: Why are some communities burnished while others burn?](https://canadianjournalist.ca/calamity-why-are-some-communities-burnished-while-others-burn/) - Why do some communities collapse amid calamity -- while others thrive? Why are some burnished, and others burned? Iceland offers lessons for all in troubled times. American architect Johanna Hoffman investigates in Survival Lessons in Iceland’s Resilience. An excerpt: HEIMAY, Iceland – The grassy slopes above this small Icelandic fishing town exploded with lava and ash 41 years
- [Leon Uris bristled when accused of historical distortion](https://canadianjournalist.ca/leon-uris-bristled-when-accused-of-historical-distortion/) - Leon Uris prided himself on being a popular historian who did his homework, as well as being a bestselling novelist. However, Arts columnist Brian Brennan dared to question the accuracy of his historical research. An excerpt of Brennan’s Brief Encounters column: From High School Dropout to Brand-name Novelist: Leon Uris: I must admit I came loaded
- [Judy Collins: “I ain’t a folksinger. I’m a singer.”](https://canadianjournalist.ca/judy-collins-i-aint-a-folksinger-im-a-singer/) - The song Amazing Grace was and continues to be a staple of Judy Collins's concert repertoire. However, when she performed a concert in Calgary, she never got to sing it. Arts columnist Brian Brennan. explains why. An excerpt of Brennan's Brief Encounters column, "Amazing Grace": Judy Collins (paywall): Before American Idol there was the Kiwanis International Talent
- [Ebola panic overshadows far more deadly diseases](https://canadianjournalist.ca/ebola-panic-overshadows-far-more-deadly-diseases/) - The Ebola panic overshadows far more deadly diseases, points out International Affairs columnist Jonathan Manthorpe. In recent weeks Ebola has tweaked our primal fears of the first Horseman of the Apocalypse, Pestilence. Politicians, world health officials and the media are near hysteria. It all reminds Manthorpe of his earlier run-in with the Black Death. An
- [Fresh Sheet and Classics on F&O](https://canadianjournalist.ca/fresh-sheet-and-classics-on-fo/) - No monkeying around: animal’s rights. By Alasdair Cochrane A United States appeals court is currently hearing the case of a chimpanzee named Tommy and is to decide if he has the right to bodily integrity and liberty, just like a person. The case, brought by the Nonhuman Rights Project, which is concerned about Tommy’s living conditions, is
- [Time Capsule: Brian Brennan meets Chuck Berry ](https://canadianjournalist.ca/time-capsule-brian-brennan-meets-chuck-berry/) - Chuck Berry stopped talking to reporters after they wrote about him being jailed in America during the 1960s for transporting an under-age girl across U.S. state lines for "immoral purposes." But he made an exception for Arts columnist Brian Brennan. An excerpt of Brennan's new Brief Encounters column, Hail! Hail! Rock ‘n’ Roll: Chuck Berry (paywall): Chuck
- [Has a crack opened between North and South Korea?](https://canadianjournalist.ca/has-a-crack-opened-between-north-and-south-korea/) - After more than six decades of hostility – including the devastating 1950-53 civil war – is North Korea now serious about trying to improve relations with South Korea? International Affairs columnist Jonathan Manthorpe examines the possibilities. An excerpt of his new column, Lightning-strike diplomacy opens crack between the Koreas (paywall*): In a remarkable demonstration that may presage the
- [Good Reads: From "Volcano Season" to Cookies](https://canadianjournalist.ca/good-reads-from-volcano-season-to-cookies/) - The Musical Travails of Duddy Kravitz: Mordecai Richler, by Brian Brennan (paywall) In 1974, Mordecai Richler’s great comic novel The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz, about a young Jewish hustler from Montreal who connives, cheats and pushes his way to the top, had been turned into a movie that was a hit in Canada and the United
- [Finding: Kenojuak Ashevak](https://canadianjournalist.ca/finding-kenojuak-ashevak/) - Occasionally the Internet, sometimes as as wonderful as it is weird, stops you in your tracks. Google's Doodle for October 3 transported me back to my teens in the Northwest Territories, where Dorset Prints like Kenojuak Ashevak's Enchanted Owl were glued onto people's beer fridges, shed doors and even, rarely, placed with respect on walls in
- [Time capsule: Duddy, Mordecai Richler's theatrical dud](https://canadianjournalist.ca/time-capsule-duddy-mordecai-richlers-theatrical-dud/) - Mordecai Richler had never written for the stage before but really wanted to see his adaptation of his beloved novel The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz make it to Broadway as a musical. Arts columnist Brian Brennan reports in his new time capsule piece that the musical had a very rough ride. An excerpt of Brennan's Brief
- [Focus on China and Hong Kong](https://canadianjournalist.ca/focus-on-china-and-hong-kong/) - Here are some of the stories on F&O that provide some clarity on the Umbrella Revolution in Hong Kong: Beijing will outwait Hong Kong’s Protesters, by Jonathan Manthorpe (paywall) Tens of thousands of Hongkongers took advantage of today’s Chinese national holiday to join students who have clogged the city’s streets for four days
- [Clouds over Hong Kong's Umbrella Revolution ](https://canadianjournalist.ca/clouds-over-hong-kongs-umbrella-revolution/) - Beijing has balked at loosing the virus of democracy that could sweep, ebola-like, from Hong Kong across the country and herald the end of the one-party state, writes International Affairs columnist Jonathan Manthorpe. He argues there is little hope that protests in Hong Kong will force Beijing to compromise, after the Standing Committee of the National
- [Good Reads](https://canadianjournalist.ca/good-reads/) - U.S. Financial Reform: Secret Recordings and a Culture Clash. By Jake Bernstein One day Carmen Segarra purchased a tiny recorder at the Spy Store and began capturing what took place at Goldman Sachs. In the tale of what happened next lie revelations about the challenges of reforming the American financial system, in the wake of the
- [Chris Wood on Canada's Old Testament Economics](https://canadianjournalist.ca/chris-wood-on-canadas-old-testament-economics/) - Outside Canada, writes Natural Security columnist Chris Wood, dangerous magical thinking — what he calls Old Testament Economics — “is increasingly being called out for its error by economists more based in reality … a Reformation is sweeping the ecclesiastical strongholds of market idolatry.” Within Canada, the reality accepted by a growing body of economists is
- [Chubby Checker, Twisting through the years](https://canadianjournalist.ca/chubby-checker-twisting-through-the-years/) - Chubby Checker wasn't getting much credit for his early contributions to rock 'n' roll during the disco dance craze of the 1970s. Arts columnist Brian Brennan reports in his new time capsule piece that Checker viewed the popular dances of the day as little more than variations of his big 1960 hit, The Twist. An
- [On Middle East context and media ](https://canadianjournalist.ca/on-middle-east-context-and-media/) - Put events in the Middle East in context, Thoughtlines columnist Jim McNiven urges in a new column. "Iraq, Syria and Lebanon are working their way through a kind of 100-years of religious war, partially similar to that between Protestants and Catholics that devastated Germany in the 16th and 17th Centuries," he writes. Excerpt of Islamic State
- [Uzbekistan’s dictator turns on his own creation: his daughter](https://canadianjournalist.ca/uzbekistans-dictator-turns-on-his-own-creation-his-daughter/) - It is not unusual for dictators, especially particularly nasty ones like Islam Karimov, to create monsters among their family members, notes International Affairs columnist Jonathan Manthorpe. Think only of the plundering relatives: Robert Mugabe’s wife Grace in Zimbabwe, the offspring of “Papa Doc” Duvalier in Haiti, and the rabid sons of Saddam Hussein in Iraq. What
- [The Poison in Afghanistan Politics](https://canadianjournalist.ca/the-poison-in-afghanistan-politics/) - Afghanistan's unity deal contains poisonous seeds which will pollute the country's politics, writes International Affairs columnist Jonathan Manthorpe. Afghans turned out in their millions, defying Taliban and other threats, to have their votes cast. Ghani, Abdullah, with Kerry and other outsiders as handmaidens, over-rode that democratic exercise, argues Manthorpe. "Their backroom deal keeps at the hub of
- [Kimber's book on The Cuban Five wins award](https://canadianjournalist.ca/kimbers-book-on-the-cuban-five/) - Big congratulations to Stephen Kimber, whose book What Lies Across the Water: The Real Story of the Cuban Five, won the Evelyn Richardson Non-Fiction Award this weekend at the 2014 East Coast Literary Awards. The awards, which celebrate Atlantic writers and writing, were held Saturday at the Institute of Applied Creativity at the Nova Scotia College of Art and
- [Climate March well-meaning -- but means next to nothing](https://canadianjournalist.ca/climate-march-well-meaning-but-means-next-to-nothing/) - By Chris Wood, Natural Security columnist This isn’t the Bastille of the Climate Revolution. Not even close. What organizers are billing as “the largest climate march in history this weekend,” hopes to draw as many as 150,000 people to New York City to urge leaders from 120 countries meeting there for the Climate Summit on Tuesday
- [Britain's New World](https://canadianjournalist.ca/britains-new-world/) - Britain will never be the same. The day after Scots voted 55-45 to support the United Kingdom, on promises by unionists for a new range of Scottish powers, Prime Minister David Cameron set in motion a process to empower not just Scotland, but also Wales and Northern Island -- and potentially to remake the British
- [Burt Mustin: Failed engineer, car salesman and Hollywood icon](https://canadianjournalist.ca/burt-mustin-failed-engineer-car-salesman-and-hollywood-icon/) - Burt Mustin didn't become a screen actor until he was 67. But Arts columnist Brian Brennan reports in his new time capsule piece, over the ensuing 22 years Mustin became one of the busiest bit players in Hollywood. An excerpt of Brennan's Brief Encounters column: “They Went That-a-way”: Burt Mustin: I just knew I had to interview Burt Mustin
- [Scotland Votes](https://canadianjournalist.ca/scotland-votes/) - Opinion polls put the result of today's Scottish vote on independence on a knife's edge, but no matter the outcome the referendum will have fundamentally changed Britain's modern balance of power. The United Kingdom has been together for better, and worse, since 1707 when Acts of Union formalized a union that was already in many ways
- [Ig Nobel awards: Jesus toast, banana skins, and polar bear suits ](https://canadianjournalist.ca/ig-nobel-awards-jesus-toast-banana-skins-and-polar-bear-suits/) - Every day another media list of newly-published science papers arrives in my email inbox: the result of earnest investigations into weighty issues. Then, once a year, there's the Ig Nobel Prize list, awarded by an organization called Improbable Research. Part of the amusement around this awards ceremony, held at Harvard on Thursday, is that the
- [Scotland's independence referendum: a beginner’s guide](https://canadianjournalist.ca/scotlands-independence-referendum-a-beginners-guide/) - By Coree Brown, University of Edinburgh What is Scotland voting for? Voters in Scotland will go to the polls on September 18 and answer the question: “Should Scotland be an independent country?” The result will be determined by a simple majority vote, and is expected to be announced on the morning of September 19. Who
- [Tammy Wynette: Brian Brennan's Brief Encounter](https://canadianjournalist.ca/tammy-wynette-brian-brennans-brief-encounter/) - Tammy Wynette said that if she had to make a choice between husband and career, she would choose the music first. As Arts columnist Brian Brennan reports in his new time capsule piece, she revealed this to him just as she was about to divorce her fourth husband, Nashville real estate executive Michael Tomlin. An excerpt
- [Humans have the tools to avoid eco-geddon: Chris Wood](https://canadianjournalist.ca/humans-have-the-tools-to-avoid-eco-geddon-chris-wood/) - Systems approaching the brink display some common features, and sometimes thresholds give advance warning, writes Chris Wood in his new Natural Security column. They recover more slowly from disruption; “in-state fluctuations” become wilder and less predictable; conditions “flicker” rapidly from one state to another. But by opening our eyes to these and other signs, we may be
- [Oscar Pistorius and South African justice](https://canadianjournalist.ca/oscar-pistorius-and-south-african-justice/) - Oscar Pistorius, the double-amputee Olympian known as Blade Runner, was found not guilty in South Africa on Thursday of premeditated murder in the shooting of his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp, a law graduate and model. Pistorius was convicted Friday** of unlawful homicide, a charge similar to that of manslaughter in other countries. “I am not persuaded that a reasonable person
- [Island-building Inflames China-Philippines Dispute ](https://canadianjournalist.ca/island-building-inflames-china-philippines-dispute/) - Pursuit of Beijing’s claim to the South China Sea is a major element in the drive by China's Communist Party boss Xi Jinping to convince the population that the country is re-emerging as the world’s pre-eminent power, writes International Affairs columnist Jonathan Manthorpe.. "The prospects are not good." An excerpt of Manthorpe's new column, China manufactures islands
- [A Brief Encounter with Randy Bachman](https://canadianjournalist.ca/a-brief-encounter-with-randy-bachman/) - Randy Bachman walked away from two of Canada's hottest rock bands, the Guess Who and Bachman-Turner Overdrive, when they were at the height of their fame. In his new time capsule piece, Arts columnist Brian Brennan tells what happened to him next. An excerpt of Brennan's Brief Encounters column, Rock ‘n’ Roll Survivor: Randy Bachman: When I first
- [Imran Khan's sad, public flameout](https://canadianjournalist.ca/imran-khans-sad-public-flameout/) - Political rifts in Pakistan widened recently when soldiers expelled demonstrators occupying the Pakistan Television building; at least three protesters died and 400 people were injured, writes International Affairs columnist Jonathan Manthorpe. It's another example of trouble for Imran Khan. An excerpt of Manthorpe's new column, Imran Khan: from sports hero to prophet of doom: The occupation of
- [The Week's End: Arendt to Louisiana; China to Clam Rolls; Books and Flicks ](https://canadianjournalist.ca/the-weeks-end-arendt-to-louisiana-china-to-clam-rolls-books-and-flicks/) - It's the Labour Day weekend in parts of the world: a time for a break, to advocate for Workers, even to consider "labour." The philosopher Hannah Arendt had interesting ideas about labour: she insisted on a distinction between "labour" and "work:" She wrote quite a lot about this in her opus The Human Condition but, in short,
- [Clam Rolls, Ocean Acidification -- and Solutions](https://canadianjournalist.ca/clam-rolls-ocean-acidification-and-solutions/) - Oddly, the new column by Natural Security columnist Chris Wood brought to my mind a sign outside a university chemistry lab when, a lifetime ago, I was studying biology. "If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate," it quipped. It's a bit of goofy scientist humour -- but reading Wood's piece, I thought,
- [Norman Maen: from Ireland to Swine Lake with Muppets](https://canadianjournalist.ca/norman-maen-from-ireland-to-swine-lake-with-muppets/) - Norman Maen had many challenges as a professional choreographer working on both sides of the Atlantic during the 1970s. But as Arts columnist Brian Brennan reports in his new time capsule piece, none was more demanding than Maen's assignment to devise a routine for Rudolph Nureyev and Miss Piggy on The Muppet Show. An excerpt
- [Will Islamic State zealots bring U.S. and Iran together?](https://canadianjournalist.ca/will-islamic-state-zealots-bring-u-s-and-iran-together/) - Relations between Iran and the United States have been ice cold since 1979. The terrorist attack of 9/11 could have been one opportunity for a thawing, but "among the plethora of murderously stupid things former United States President George W. Bush did was to shut that door by including Iran in his “axis of evil”
- [Zimbabwe's new colonial master](https://canadianjournalist.ca/zimbabwes-new-colonial-master/) - It looks increasingly as though Zimbabwe’s peasant farmers have simply exchanged colonial masters, writes International Affairs columnist Jonathan Manthorpe. An excerpt of his new column, China accepts tribute from its vassal, Zimbabwe’s Robert Mugabe: That significance is likely to grow early next year, when Mugabe is the odds-on favourite to be selected leader of the 54-member African
- [The week on F&O](https://canadianjournalist.ca/the-week-on-fo/) - Within our site you'll find a trove of free stories at no charge, but to support F&O, or access the original work behind our paywall, please use the links on the top right of each page to LOG IN or SUBSCRIBE. A day pass to the entire site is $1. Subscriptions range from $2.95 monthly
- [UN Security Council and journalists at risk](https://canadianjournalist.ca/un-security-council-and-journalists-at-risk/) - A legal expert wonders if it's time for the United Nations Security Council to become pro-active in protecting journalism. "Statistics suggest that many states are unwilling or unable to deter crimes against journalists by ensuring that the perpetrators are held to account," writes Carmen Draghici. "The culture of impunity not only infringes the victims’ right
- [Global Warming hiatus due - surprise! - to Atlantic Ocean](https://canadianjournalist.ca/global-warming-hiatus-due-surprise-to-atlantic-ocean/) - New research published today in the journal Science suggests, surprisingly, that the answer to the biggest climate change mystery of the past decade or so may be found in the deep Atlantic Ocean, and not as suspected in the Pacific. Noted Science: Why did the rapid global warming that characterized the latter part of the 20th century
- [James Foley, Journalist](https://canadianjournalist.ca/james-foley-journalist/) - James Foley, American teacher-turned-journalist, was abducted in Syria in November, 2012. He reportedly died this week after extremists dressed him up in an orange suit like the ones Americans put on prisoners at Guantánamo, and a man with a British accent cut off his head. His killers videotaped the murder and put it up on YouTube.
- [Patrick Stewart leads the Ice Bucket Challenge](https://canadianjournalist.ca/patrick-stewart-leads-the-ice-bucket-challenge/) - I was doing just fine ignoring the ice bucket trend, until actor Patrick Stewart wowed the world with his response to the challenge and made me look. It seems silly, but it turns out that silly -- here, asking people to dump icy water over their heads -- is a terrific way to fund-raise. Due
- [The Return of Doctor Who](https://canadianjournalist.ca/the-return-of-doctor-who/) - The Doctor returns on Saturday. Doctor Who? Yes. Oh. Why, that would be Peter Capaldi, the latest actor to play the science fiction character Doctor Who. He is apparently loved by nerds, muggles and regular folk alike as he and his companions "travel through time and space in a miraculous police box called the TARDIS." That's
- [Time capsule: Frankie Laine](https://canadianjournalist.ca/time-capsule-frankie-laine/) - Frankie Laine had been one of the most successful of the big-voiced balladeers who emerged in North America in the late 1940s and 1950s. But as Arts columnist Brian Brennan reveals in his new time capsule piece, Laine first made his name not as a singer but as a world-record champion of marathon dancing. An
- [Western security concerns fund Ebola drugs ](https://canadianjournalist.ca/western-security-concerns-fund-ebola-drugs/) - The World Health Organization said Tuesday the current outbreak of Ebola, which has to date killed an estimated 1,200 people in West Africa, is confirmed only in Guinea, Liberia, Nigeria, and Sierra Leone, and "at present, no cases have been confirmed anywhere else in the world." On August 8, the organization had declared an extremely rare Public Health Emergency
- [Ethics, journalism and junk media](https://canadianjournalist.ca/ethics-journalism-and-junk-media/) - I worked with Stephen Ward a lifetime ago, at The Canadian Press news service in Halifax. A philosopher by education, he took journalism seriously, and went on to a career of thinking, writing about, and graduate-level teaching in the field. He has now set up a site focused on media ethics, and I'm pleased that F&O
- [New on F&O](https://canadianjournalist.ca/new-on-fo/) - Happy Monday, world. Here's our lineup of new work on Facts and Opinions: In Arts: The Fan Dancer: Sally Rand. By Brian Brennan (subscription required*) My assignment was to interview a 71-year-old grandmother who danced nude while waving a couple of big white ostrich-feather fans like the veils of Salome. She had been a star
- [Universities in Crisis: a series](https://canadianjournalist.ca/universities-in-crisis-a-series/) - Jim McNiven wraps up his three-part series The Future of the Global University System (public access) with thoughts on Globalizing Access to Higher Education. An excerpt: Let’s take a tour d’horizon of what seem to be the relevant pieces of the situation outlined in the preceding two Parts of this essay. Governments, either quickly or slowly, are
- [We can climb out of the hole we've dug: Wood](https://canadianjournalist.ca/we-can-climb-out-of-the-hole-weve-dug-wood/) - "It’s one of those authorless pieces of universal wisdom: When you find yourself at the bottom of a hole, the first thing to do is stop digging," writes Chris Wood. We have dug ourselves to the bottom of a hole -- but there is a way out, he argues. An excerpt of this week’s Natural Security column, Stop Digging!:
- [Brennan's Brief Encounter with Sally Rand, Fan Dancer](https://canadianjournalist.ca/brennans-brief-encounter-with-sally-rand-fan-dancer/) - Fan dancer Sally Rand was still dancing nude on stage with her trademark ostrich-feather fans when she was in her 70s. In his new time capsule piece, Arts columnist Brian Brennan recalls that she wouldn't dance while the television cameras were rolling. That, she said, "would destroy the illusion." And excerpt of Brennan's latest Brief
- [R.I.P., Lauren Bacall](https://canadianjournalist.ca/r-i-p-lauren-bacall/) - "You just put your lips together, and blow." -- Lauren Bacall. Lauren Bacall, iconic American screen legend, model, and famously half of the "Bogie and Bacall" team with her husband Humphrey Bogart, died Tuesday, age 89. Read Sean Cubitt's obituary in F&O/Arts, Between glamour and intimacy: Lauren Bacall 1924-2014. Reading: SEAN CUBITT: Lauren Bacall 1924-2014, in
- [R.I.P., Robin Williams](https://canadianjournalist.ca/r-i-p-robin-williams/) - Robin Williams, 63, died this morning of suspected suicide at his home in Marin County, California, said police. "The Sheriff’s Office Coroner Division suspects the death to be a suicide due to asphyxia, but a comprehensive investigation must be completed before a final determination is made, said the county sheriff's press release: On August 11, 2014, at
- [Findings: the skinny on UV](https://canadianjournalist.ca/findings-the-skinny-on-uv/) - Artist Thomas Leveritt filmed people's faces with regular and ultraviolet light; the startling result reveals freckles and damage within layers of skin invisible to the naked eye. Leveritt tweeted, "We showed people what they looked like in ultraviolet, & wondered aloud if they wanted to put on some damn sunscreen already." I kind
- [China's latest Cultural Revolution underway -- Manthorpe](https://canadianjournalist.ca/chinas-latest-cultural-revolution-underway-manthorpe/) - China's constant sensitivity about its international image has intensified as Beijing flexes its muscles as a growing world power, writes International Affairs columnist Jonathan Manthorpe. An excerpt of his new column, China’s Xi launches his own Cultural Revolution: Xi Jinping is not content with being the most powerful leader of China since Mao Zedong. He also wants to
- [Brief Encounters - a new column](https://canadianjournalist.ca/brief-encounters-a-new-column/) - Facts and Opinions is pleased to announce a new column -- our first in the Think/Arts section -- by Brian Brennan. In Brief Encounters, Brennan recalls conversations he had with celebrities during his 15 years as a newspaper entertainment reporter, and incorporates fresh reporting. Brennan, an Irish journalist living in Canada, is a founding feature writer
- [On Israel](https://canadianjournalist.ca/on-israel/) - To simply report on news about Israel is to enter a minefield. To comment is to invite extreme reactions of a sort experienced in few other issues. This week F&O columnists Chris Wood and Jonathan Manthorpe enter the fray with thoughtful, informed essays: Israel at the Boundary, by Chris Wood (Free public access) A friend
- [Chris Wood on the ‘double standard’ of criticizing Israel](https://canadianjournalist.ca/chris-wood-on-the-double-standard-of-criticizing-israel/) - Facts and Opinions’ Natural Security columnist Chris Wood reported from the first Palestinian intifada in 1988, for Canada’s Maclean’s magazine. The fierce global debate over Israel’s latest conflict with residents of Gaza prompted him to reflect on the alleged ‘double standard’ of criticizing Israel amid the region’s wider violence. Here is an excerpt of his essay Israel at
- [Scotland Decides ’14: Who won the TV debate?](https://canadianjournalist.ca/scotland-decides-14-who-won-the-tv-debate/) - The leaders of the rival campaigns in Scotland’s independence referendum battle have clashed in the first televised debate ahead of the September 18 poll. So, who came out on top? By W David McCausland, University of Aberdeen and Neil Blain, University of Stirling, The Conversation The live debate on Scottish independence between Alex Salmond and
- [Universities: a System Falling Apart](https://canadianjournalist.ca/universities-a-system-falling-apart/) - The global university system, threatened by funding problems and its own dysfunctions, cannot continue in its current form, argues Jim McNiven, author of F&O’s Thoughtlines column. He suggests that one solution -- so drastic as to be almost unthinkable -- is to jettison the research subsidies of universities, and divorce research from teaching. McNiven argued in Part One
- [John Oliver riffs about ads camouflaged as news](https://canadianjournalist.ca/john-oliver-riffs-about-ads-camouflaged-as-news/) - This is good. And quite funny. "News is like porn. People don't want to pay for it on the Internet." -- John Oliver (Facts and Opinions does not sell advertising. If you think our journalism has value, please support us with a $1 site day pass, or an inexpensive subscription.)
- [On the "Great Black Tornado" of WWI](https://canadianjournalist.ca/on-the-great-black-tornado-of-wwi/) - Every person who fought in World War I is now dead – and yet no one alive today is unaffected. The war consumed much of the globe for, arguably, decades. Many contend that the unresolved conflicts of the “Great War” re-ignited to become the conflagration we call World War II, then set in motion events from
- [Chris Wood: How to respond when a world is at stake?](https://canadianjournalist.ca/chris-wood-how-to-respond-when-a-world-is-at-stake/) - Writes Chris Wood: "We heard this week that a few members of a previously ‘un-contacted’ tribe in Brazil, provoked by the appearance of outside prospectors in their roadless territory, had emerged from the jungle. The event prompted hand-wringing in ethno-cultural circles over how to preserve the tribe’s existence once they and the global economy had
- [Russia steps into North Korea/China split](https://canadianjournalist.ca/russia-steps-into-north-koreachina-split/) - Discord between China and North Korea has provided fertile ground for Moscow, itself increasingly isolated over Ukraine, writes International Affairs columnist Jonathan Manthorpe in a new column, Jilted Putin courts Kim Jong-un for comfort. Excerpt: The ripples set in motion by Russia’s annexation of Crimea and Moscow’s ever more blatant involvement in fighting in eastern Ukraine have reached the
- [America's Race-relations Agony](https://canadianjournalist.ca/americas-race-relations-agony/) - Six decades ago this year, the United States Supreme Court outlawed “separate but equal” schools. Fifty years ago this summer, hundreds of black and white volunteers converged on Mississippi in an effort to -- as they put it -- make Mississippi a part of America. And still, even with the country led by a president with
- [Libya's potential new dictator, with CIA links](https://canadianjournalist.ca/libyas-potential-new-dictator-with-cia-links/) - Libya, already rife with political, tribal and religious divisions, is threatened by yet another coup, warns International Affairs analyst Jonathan Manthorpe. Excerpt of today's column: A renegade Libyan general, reputedly with links to Washington’s Central Intelligence Agency, is well on his way to filling the political vacuum left by the ouster and killing of dictator Muammar Qaddafi
- [Afghan policeman kills photo-journalist, injures reporter](https://canadianjournalist.ca/afghan-policeman-kills-photo-journalist-injures-reporter/) - A police commander today shot two journalists covering Afghanistan's election for the Associated Press, killing German photojournalist Anja Niedringhaus and injuring Canadian reporter Kathy Gannon. Said an Associated Press statement by Gary Pruitt: It is with grief and great sadness that I let you know that photographer Anja Niedringhaus has been killed while working in
- [Man Booker Longlist goes Global](https://canadianjournalist.ca/man-booker-longlist-goes-global/) - Organizers of the Man Booker Prize released their first long list in a competition open to the wide world -- or at least to titles written originally in English, and published in the United Kingdom. Read the column Judging the Man Booker Prize by literature professor and 2012 judge Dinah Birch, in F&O's Ex Libris section. The
- [Jon Stewart Learns What Happens When You Criticize Israel](https://canadianjournalist.ca/jon-stewart-learns-what-happens-when-you-criticize-israel/) - Article 19, The Universal Declaration of Human Rights: Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers. That is all. -- Deborah Jones *Facts and Opinions is a boutique
- [Online Tracking That's Virtually Impossible to Block](https://canadianjournalist.ca/online-tracking-thats-virtually-impossible-to-block/) - by Julia Angwin, ProPublica A new, extremely persistent type of online tracking is shadowing visitors to thousands of top websites, from WhiteHouse.gov to YouPorn.com. First documented in a forthcoming paper by researchers at Princeton University and KU Leuven University in Belgium, this type of tracking, called canvas fingerprinting, works by instructing the visitor's Web browser
- [Environmental Assessments Include Climate](https://canadianjournalist.ca/environmental-assessments-include-climate/) - By Chris Wood, Natural Security columnist How wide to cast the net when examining the environmental damage a proposed industrial development might do, is a contested issue. In Canada, panels weighing the impacts of proposed oil pipelines from Alberta to the Pacific Coast have repeatedly refused to consider the damage that may occur from climate
- [Summertime ... and the fans are jumping](https://canadianjournalist.ca/summertime-and-the-fans-are-jumping/) - The weather can be capricious, but entertainment expands and lightens up in the long summer days of the Northern Hemisphere, with a music or theatre festival most weekends. The most unusual is perhaps the arctic Great Northern Arts Festival each July in Inuvik, Northwest Territories, with pop musicians performing alongside Inuit fashion shows and throat-singers. One
- [Americans ride broomsticks to gold in Quidditch games](https://canadianjournalist.ca/americans-ride-broomsticks-to-gold-in-quidditch-games/)
- [Ukraine and Palestine as Nature's Harbingers](https://canadianjournalist.ca/ukraine-and-palestine-as-natures-harbingers/) - Even amid shocking news events, we ignore at our peril the larger reality of what is happening to our world, warns Chris Wood in his Natural Security column. Excerpt: More than on most days, the handcart in which we are all riding toward a very unpleasant destination feels like we’re maybe in sight of the station.
- [Religious extremism slouches onward](https://canadianjournalist.ca/religious-extremism-slouches-onward/) - "Few parts of the world have avoided the destructive influence of social dislocation – if not always of violence — inspired by religious extremism, based often on racial ultra-nationalism," writes International Affairs analyst Jonathan Manthorpe in today's column. Excerpt: It is not just fanatical believers in an intolerant, violent, evangelical and racist brand of Islam that are
- [The future of education: universities, hogs and logs](https://canadianjournalist.ca/the-future-of-education-universities-hogs-and-logs/) - Jim McNiven, author of F&O's Thoughtlines column, tackles the factored global university system -- not to condemn it, he writes in today's column, but to try and explain the harsh reality: "A system whose structures and incentives were created around 1900 has evolved in ways never dreamed of then and is today under threat from
- [The Man Who Would be Caliph](https://canadianjournalist.ca/the-man-who-would-be-caliph/) - What sets Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi apart from all other would-be Caliphs, including Osama bin Laden and his successor as al-Qaida leader Ayman al-Zawahri, is that he is supremely qualified, writes International Affairs analyst Jonathan Manthorpe, of the current battle in Syria and Iraq. An excerpt of today's column: Half a dozen so-called Islamic states have been created
- [Why Spy Scandal Stokes German Distrust of U.S.](https://canadianjournalist.ca/why-spy-scandal-stokes-german-distrust-of-u-s/) - "Spy versus spy games are one thing, but spying on the work of a parliamentary committee of one of Washington’s closest allies is worse than stupid. It is very rude," writes International Affairs analyst Jonathan Manthorpe, pondering the scandal which prompted Germany to ask America's CIA's station chief to leave. The incident stoked the "smouldering debate in
- [Finding: Moving Day for Bears](https://canadianjournalist.ca/finding-moving-day-for-bears/) - Hollywood has its comedies. Scandinavia does dark thrillers. British dramas are legendary. And Yukon … will recognition come to the Canadian territory for wildlife documentaries as authentic as the far north? This month Yukon conservation officers captured a black bear and her cubs eating garbage left out by residents in Whitehorse, Yukon's capital. Garbage bears
- [Anting: It's a Bird Thing](https://canadianjournalist.ca/anting-its-a-bird-thing-2/) - In summer it's common to find a bird flattened on the ground, wings splayed. It may seem injured, but will roust if approached -- and when the interruption is over, return with the determination of a junkie seeking a fix, to sprawl on the same spot. Look closely -- a telephoto lens helps -- and you'll
- [Memories of  Portugal's Foodie Legacy](https://canadianjournalist.ca/memories-of-portugals-foodie-legacy/) - The FIFA World Cup in Brazil brought back odd memories for International Affairs analyst Jonathan Manthorpe -- not about football, not about the host country Brazil, a former Portugese colony ... but about food. "Of all the restaurants I have patronized around the world, three of the most memorable are in former Portuguese colonies," he writes. "It’s not
- [How to Stop Being Tracked Online](https://canadianjournalist.ca/how-to-stop-being-tracked-online/) - By Hanging Chen, ProPublica Many sites (including ProPublica and F&O) track user behaviour using a variety of invisible third-party software. This means any time you visit a web page, you're likely sharing data about your online habits, from clicks to views or social shares, whether you realize it or not. But there are
- [From Shattered Iraq, Ancient "Land of Kurds" Will Rise](https://canadianjournalist.ca/from-shattered-iraq-ancient-land-of-kurds-will-rise/) - The fracturing of Iraq will mean the birth of Kurdistan, and another revision of borders around the ancient land of the Kurds, writes International Affairs analyst Jonathan Manthorpe. An excerpt of his new column: The question is not whether there will be an independent Kurdistan. It’s been lurking in the underbrush since 1991. The question is how
- [Bandaging Symptoms Won't Cure Thailand's Trauma: Manthorpe](https://canadianjournalist.ca/bandaging-symptoms-wont-cure-thailands-trauma-manthorpe/) - Thailand's ousted prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra "is a symptom of Thailand’s problems, not the source of them," writes International Affairs analyst Jonathan Manthorpe. "Erasing him and his cohorts from the political agenda will not alter the reality that Thaksin represents an upwardly mobile and provincial middle class in Thailand that wants a voice in a system dominated by
- [Bombast](https://canadianjournalist.ca/bombast/) - An American court lobbed a bombshell into the culture wars today, by ruling that some United States corporations have religious rights. My first notice of the decision was an email alert from the New York Times: "The Supreme Court has ruled on whether for-profit corporations may advance claims based on religious freedom. Our reporters are reading the
- [The DICEy Flaws in Carbon Models: Chris Wood](https://canadianjournalist.ca/the-dicey-flaws-in-carbon-models-chris-wood/) - Economists Simon Dietz and Nicholas Stern have published some startling findings about the current DICEy models used to estimate the social price of carbon. Chris Wood explains in today’s Natural Security column, excerpt here: A common line of attack for the propagandists, and the misled who imagine we are not altering Earth’s climate, is that climate
- [On the EU and David Cameron's Base](https://canadianjournalist.ca/on-the-eu-and-david-camerons-base/) - David Cameron’s campaign to prevent the election of Jean-Claude Juncker as head of the European Commission was a piece of sound and fury, writes International Affairs analyst Jonathan Manthorpe. His defeat would seem, on the surface, conclusive -- except when considered as a work of domestic politicking. An excerpt of Manthorpe's column: The humiliating defeat of British
- [Yesterday's Man: Canada's Peter MacKay](https://canadianjournalist.ca/yesterdays-man-canadas-peter-mackay/) - Canadian Justice Minister Peter MacKay has been the subject of a flurry of news stories, and almost as many satire pieces, about anti-woman comments he is alleged to have made. Writer Charles Mandel responds with an opinion column for F&O's THINK/Loose Leaf section: Peter MacKay is yesterday’s man. According to Canada’s Justice Minister, women are
- [Ruling Alters Canada's Balance of Native Rights  ](https://canadianjournalist.ca/ruling-alters-canadas-balance-of-native-rights/) - Canada’s top court greatly expanded aboriginal rights in Canada’s westernmost province, in what may stand as a landmark decision affecting control of a vast swath of land and resources, in British Columbia and beyond. The case, Tsilhqot’in Nation v. British Columbia, was sparked in 1983 when the provincial government licenced a commercial company to log
- [Affiliation and Dual Passports Complicate Journalist's Case](https://canadianjournalist.ca/affiliation-and-dual-passports-complicate-journalists-case/) - "A Canadian is a Canadian and deserving of diplomatic protection, whatever one thinks of his or her affiliations," writes International Affairs analyst Jonathan Manthorpe. Today's column deals with an Egyptian court's sentences of three journalists this week. Two complications plague the controversial case: the tricky issue of dual citizenship, and their employment by Al Jazeera, a news
- [Canada's Climate: Last Chance Tourism](https://canadianjournalist.ca/canadas-climate-last-chance-tourism/) - By CHRIS WOOD More or less as yesterday’s blog post (on Risky Business and Climate-Smart Development) was emerging from my keyboard, Canada’s federal government very quietly uploaded to the website of the Department of Natural Resources the closest thing Canadians have seen since 2008 to a comprehensive survey of Canada’s climate change vulnerabilities. In fact, Canada in
- [You want fries with that mortarboard?](https://canadianjournalist.ca/you-want-fries-with-that-mortarboard/) - With convocation season wrapping up, journalist Penney Kome is prompted by her own son's graduation to consider the severe deflation of university degrees in trying economic times. "Convocation at the University of Alberta was a bittersweet occasion for at least one family," writes Kome in The Degree Bubble. "Yielding to parental pressure to attend the graduation ceremony, our
- [Risky Business vs Smart Development](https://canadianjournalist.ca/risky-business-vs-smart-development/) - By CHRIS WOOD If Canada’s Prime Minister Stephen Harper and Australia’s Tony Abbott, the world’s most unabashed national cheerleaders for Big Carbon, were really the ‘frank,’ hard-nosed pair they pretend to be, two reports out in as many days would surely shake their certainty that acting to slow down and adapt to climate change will
- [Iraq on our mind](https://canadianjournalist.ca/iraq-on-our-mind/) - Events in Iraq have dominated world affairs this week. Reports and analysis in Facts and Opinions provide context: In The Cold War 2.0, Thoughtlines author Jim McNiven looks at the deep historical and geopolitical picture (subscription required): For 40 years, one big contest played out in the world. It was a kind of arm-wrestling match between the Soviets
- [The water is rising](https://canadianjournalist.ca/the-water-is-rising/) - Research showing that the West Antarctic Ice Sheet is breaking up lends an hallucinatory air to our political and business discourses, writes Natural Security columnist Chris Wood. We carry on as though the historical world will last forever, as if our biggest problem is which superpower or hedge fund will prevail -- while our world is
- [The Dictator of Eritrea -- Manthorpe](https://canadianjournalist.ca/the-dictator-of-eritrea-manthorpe/) - "Fellow Africa hand Remer Tyson and I were huddling behind the thickest wall we could find one bad morning in the Somali capital, Mogadishu, and, as one does as the bullets fly, we grew philosophical, recalls International Affairs analyst Jonathan Manthorpe of a day in 1991. “If Africa had any sense,” said Remer, correspondent for a major
- [Trolls Be Gone? Knight, Mozilla, NYTimes and WaPo to the Rescue](https://canadianjournalist.ca/trolls-be-gone-knight-mozilla-nytimes-and-wapo-to-the-rescue/) - The Knight Foundation announced funding Thursday to build a free, open-source tool to help newsrooms "turn comments into community," in partnership with the New York Times, Washington Post, and non-profit Mozilla. This might matter far beyond news organizations. Townhalls are vital to democracy -- and are sorely lacking. "This isn’t another commenting platform for publishers; it’s
- [Finding: United Kingdom Accents ](https://canadianjournalist.ca/finding-united-kingdom-accents/) - Proper English gentlemen and ladies may not be amused, but we are. Siobhan Thompson of the BBC America's Anglophenia blog pokes fun at Brit-speak. A diversion for the weekend:
- [Climate change: the Pointy End of Hope ](https://canadianjournalist.ca/climate-change-the-pointy-end-of-hope/) - The effects of human-caused climate change are already evident on all continents and waters, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change said in its latest report March 31. The report is, undeniably, grim: agriculture, human health, water and land-based ecosystems, water supplies, and some livelihoods are already affected. There is much we don't know, it said.
- [Boo! GMO!](https://canadianjournalist.ca/boo-gmo/) - What exactly is wrong with allowing consumers to be informed?
- [Car, life and fire insurance are normal. Now let's cover the planet](https://canadianjournalist.ca/car-life-and-fire-insurance-are-normal-now-lets-cover-the-planet/) - In much of the world environmental regulations are lax, and any changes controversial. F&O Natural Security columnist Chris Wood suggests a simple fix, one already embraced by business and civil society alike. An excerpt of his new column: Acidifying oceans. Desertifying fields. Liquifying glaciers and icecaps. Toxifying lakes and rivers. Our species has a nature
- [Who will succeed Robert Mugabe?](https://canadianjournalist.ca/who-will-succeed-robert-mugabe/) - Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe is 90. He has never named a successor and there are indications he enjoys the confusion he spreads by seeming to favour one candidate and then another, writes International Affairs analyst Jonathan Manthorpe. It is a measure of his ability to confuse that there is much chatter in Zimbabwe that he
- [Amid bloodshed, Kenya's leader plays dangerous game](https://canadianjournalist.ca/amid-bloodshed-kenyas-leader-plays-dangerous-game/) - In accusing “local political networks” and an “opportunist network of other criminal gangs,” Kenya's president has tried obliquely to blame his political opposition for recent bloodshed, writes International Affairs analyst Jonathan Manthorpe in today’s column. It's a dangerous tactic, which focuses attention on a history of bloody rivalry and the country's ineffectual government since independence from Britain. An
- [It's Complicated: Facebook's History of Tracking You](https://canadianjournalist.ca/its-complicated-facebooks-history-of-tracking-you/) - by Julia Angwin, ProPublica For years people have noticed a funny thing about Facebook's ubiquitous Like button. It has been sending data to Facebook tracking the sites you visit. Each time details of the tracking were revealed, Facebook promised that it wasn't using the data for any commercial purposes. No longer. Last week, Facebook announced
- [Naheed Nenshi, Canada's Mayor](https://canadianjournalist.ca/this-week-on-fo-canadas-mayor/) - Profile story about Calgary Mayor, Naheed Nenshi, by Brian Brennan at Factsandopinions.com
- [F&O's first magazine feature wins kudos](https://canadianjournalist.ca/fos-first-magazine-feature-wins-kudos/) - Congratulations to F&O founding feature writer Brian Brennan, whose story Canada's Mayor -- F&O's first original magazine feature -- won Runner-up, Best Feature Article, in the 2014 Professional Writers Association of Canada Awards. Here's what we said on our Frontlines blog to announce the piece when it was published September 30, 2013: When river flooding inundated downtown Calgary, it caused billions of dollars in damage and tested
- [Replace Westphalian Nationalism with Green Unity: Chris Wood](https://canadianjournalist.ca/replace-westphalian-nationalism-with-green-unity-chris-wood/) - National sovereignty, no matter how zealously protected, cannot achieve natural security, writes Chris Wood in today's Natural Security column. Critical ecological infrastructure can only be assured if we get past misguided nationalisms, nativism and deep-rooted tribalisms -- past a way of thinking about the world that dates back 366 years and has come to be tagged the “Westphalian”
- [On Iraq and America's Folly  ](https://canadianjournalist.ca/on-iraq-and-americas-folly/) - From five words flow the events we see today in Iraq, writes International Affairs analyst Jonathan Manthorpe in today’s column. As the United States grappled with a response to 9/11 Donald Rumsfield, then Secretary of Defense, said, “What if Iraq is involved?” What has been largely overlooked about America's invasion of Iraq, Manthorpe argues, "is how conclusively
- [Online Tracking Increasingly Creepy](https://canadianjournalist.ca/online-tracking-increasingly-creepy/) - by Julia Angwin, ProPublica The marketers that follow you around the web are getting nosier. Currently, many companies track where users go on the Web -- often through cookies -- in order to display customized ads. That's why if you look at a pair of shoes on one site, ads for those shoes may follow you around
- [The Philosophy of a "Soccer Fanatic" ](https://canadianjournalist.ca/the-philosophy-of-a-soccer-fanatic/) - In June, the largest global audience in history will tune in to watch the FIFA World Cup in Brazil, a quadrennial carnival rivalled only by the Summer and Winter Olympics. Many will live and die by the progress of their teams, with hearts-in-mouths and lumps in throats. Tears, shrieks and all the rest will combine
- [Beijing reneges on Hong Kong freedom: Manthorpe column](https://canadianjournalist.ca/beijing-reneges-on-hong-kong-freedom-guarantee/) - China's reinterpretation of its 1984 agreement with London puts a large question mark over any deal or treaty the Chinese government signs, warns International Affairs analyst Jonathan Manthorpe in today's column. An excerpt: The Chinese government has confirmed what everyone has known for a long time: it was lying when it signed a treaty guaranteeing Hong Kong
- [What to make of Bowe Bergdahl?](https://canadianjournalist.ca/what-to-make-of-bowe-bergdahl/) - Two events in Afghanistan recently seem to be at odds with each other: the Tabliban's release of American Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl in exchange for a prisoner swap, and the attempted killing of presidential candidate Abdullah Abdullah."Yet these two pictures are not mutually exclusive," writes International Affairs analyst Jonathan Manthorpe. " There are strands that bind them together."
- [Quebec legalizes doctor-assisted death](https://canadianjournalist.ca/quebec-legalizes-doctor-assisted-death/) - Quebec lawmakers voted in favour Thursday of allowing doctor-assisted suicide for terminally-ill patients. Canada's federal government has previously said it would legally challenge the provision in the province's Quebec's law, "respecting end-of-life care" that, for the first time in Canada, would legally allow doctors to help end the life of competent patients who choose to ask for help
- [Qatar's Pernicious Adventures](https://canadianjournalist.ca/qatars-pernicious-adventures/) - A successful campaign to host the World Cup in 2022 was meant to be the crowning sports achievement for Qatar, writes International Affairs analyst Jonathan Manthorpe -- but it is not turning out that way. An excerpt of Manthorpe's new column: From being the poster boy for a modernizing Middle East, the filthy rich Gulf state of
- [The Value of a World](https://canadianjournalist.ca/the-value-of-a-world/) - The world's ecological and atmospheric infrastructure -- from ocean currents to mango forests, the jetstream to wetlands -- contributes at least $1.50 to human economic wellbeing for every dollar that we mark in the official economy of goods and services, new research has found. What does this matter? A lot, it turns out, as Chris Wood writes
- [Who Did In the Republic of Doyle?](https://canadianjournalist.ca/who-did-in-the-republic-of-doyle/) - Charles Mandel writes about the end of the Republic of Doyle, a television series that captured the essence of Canada and Newfoundland. A production of Canada's public broadcaster, the Doyle family was well-loved -- but apparently, in a time of severe government cutbacks, not sufficiently loved. An excerpt: These are damn sad days in the Duke
- [Japan Responds to China -- Manthorpe](https://canadianjournalist.ca/japan-responds-to-china-manthorpe/) - Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe this week launched a challenge of China's increasing assertiveness in Asia, writes International Affairs analyst Jonathan Manthorpe. It's a significant departure for Abe, who became Prime Minister for the second time in 2012 with a mandate to reform Japan’s moribund economy and reassert the country’s international status. An excerpt of
- [European ground shifts beneath supporter's feet](https://canadianjournalist.ca/european-ground-shifts-beneath-supporters-feet/) - When all is said and done following the European Union elections, the person who really counts is the German Chancellor, Angela Merkel, writes International Affairs analyst Jonathan Manthorpe. Is Merkel correct in believing that surging support for rightwing parties stems from economic insecurity -- and not a fundamental objection to EU powers? Still, EU supporters are treading
- [On Rachel Carson's birthday](https://canadianjournalist.ca/on-rachel-carsons-birthday/) - Rachel Carson, the American scientist and environmentalist who wrote the classic Silent Spring, was born 107 years ago today. Charles Mandel, who reported on Carson's life and the impact she made, writes: I believe if she were still alive, she’d be singularly unimpressed with the progress – or lack thereof. Governments are still wrestling over bans
- [Flash Boys: Nathan Rothschild redux](https://canadianjournalist.ca/flash-boys-nathan-rothschild-redux/) - Michael Lewis’s latest book, Flash Boys, is the 21st Century version of the story of those British financiers who lost out to Nathan Rothschild in 1814, and of their attempts to figure out how Rothschild did it, writes Jim McNiven in Thoughtlines. Today, semaphores and carrier pigeons have been replaced with fibre optic cables and microwave towers.
- [Beijing's Empire Grows in South China Sea: Manthorpe](https://canadianjournalist.ca/beijings-empire-grows-in-south-china-sea-manthorpe/) - At what point will Beijing be challenged on its empire-building campaign? International Affairs analyst Jonathan Manthorpe examines China's latest moves to claim territory and influence in Southeast Asia. An excerpt of his new column: China’s project to slowly gobble up sovereignty over the South China Sea and, with money and threats to cow the 10 countries
- [AIDS activist and playwright Larry Kramer on HBO](https://canadianjournalist.ca/aids-activist-and-playwright-larry-kramer-on-hbo/) - This Sunday, North American television watchers will at last have a chance to watch American playwright Larry Kramer's pioneering work on AIDS - an adaptation for Home Box Office of his blistering 1980s play The Normal Heart. When it was first staged the play was a timely and angry indictment of government, the media and the
- [Martial law an interlude in Thailand crisis - Manthorpe](https://canadianjournalist.ca/martial-law-an-interlude-in-thailand-crisis-manthorpe/) - Amid the tension and turmoil in Thailand this week, only one thing is certain -- the military would not have intervened without the approval of ailing King Bhumibol Adulyadej, writes International Affairs analyst Jonathan Manthorpe. An excerpt of his new column: A day after declaring martial law, the first attempt by Thailand’s army to mediate an
- [A whale for the taking](https://canadianjournalist.ca/a-whale-for-the-taking/) - When dead whales wash up on the beaches of Newfoundland villages and begin to rot it causes a stink over who is responsible for removing the carcasses.
- [Thailand in Turmoil -- Manthorpe](https://canadianjournalist.ca/thailand-in-turmoil-manthorpe/) - Thailand is once again roiled by political turmoil, with a rural-urban split. Will there be civil war? Can the country's aging King Bhumibol Adulyadej hang on? What will come of its democracy when Crown Prince Vajiralongkorn, "seen as a vindictive man with thuggish instincts," takes over? International Affairs analyst Jonathan Manthorpe explains why military intervention - now being
- [Finding: the virtual universe in video](https://canadianjournalist.ca/finding-the-virtual-universe-in-video/) - The science journal Nature released an extraordinary video this week. It's of a computer model called Illustris, which aims to show the creation of the universe. An excerpt of the Nature report: "Mark Vogelsberger, a physicist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, and his colleagues created a model of the Universe that follows
- [On China's dangerous assertiveness -- Manthorpe](https://canadianjournalist.ca/on-chinas-dangerous-assertiveness-manthorpe/) - Backed by its arsenal of modern ships, submarines, warplanes and missiles, Beijing has become increasingly assertive over its territorial disputes with its neighbours, writes International Affairs analyst Jonathan Manthorpe. The most recent -- and most dangerous -- case is in the South China Sea, an area of many territorial disputes including between China and Vietnam. An
- [On arming North Korea with nuclear weapons and "psychopathic violence"](https://canadianjournalist.ca/on-arming-north-korea-with-nuclear-weapons-and-psychopathic-violence/) - North Korea is reportedly preparing for an underground bomb explosion at its Punggye-ri testing site, and also to test an inter-continental ballistic missile at its Sohae launch site. And amid rising tensions, there is no international consensus on a response. The country's leader, writes International Affairs analyst Jonathan Manthorpe, "has shown a capacity for psychopathic
- [Privacy Tools: Encrypt What You Can](https://canadianjournalist.ca/privacy-tools-encrypt-what-you-can/) - In the course of writing her book, Dragnet Nation, Julia Angwin tried various strategies to protect her privacy. In this series of book excerpts and adaptations, she distills the lessons from her privacy experiments into tips for readers. by Julia Angwin, ProPublica Ever since Edward Snowden revealed the inner secrets of the NSA, he
- [The Legend at 50: Northern Dancer and a Doping Mystery](https://canadianjournalist.ca/the-legend-at-50-northern-dancer-and-a-doping-mystery/) - The Kentucky Derby of 1964, run 50 years ago this weekend, would in some ways turn out to be one of the most important and telling in horseracing history, its real and symbolic impact felt a half-century later throughout a sport roiled by doping scandals, writes Ryan Goldberg for ProPublica, in a story published in F&O's
- [Canada's National Film Board at 75](https://canadianjournalist.ca/canadas-national-film-board-at-75/) - The storied National Film Board of Canada celebrates its 75th anniversary this month. Starting today, May 2, it will offer a celebratory selection of its work in the NFB free online "viewing room." The NFB describes itself this way: Canada’s public film producer and distributor creates social-issue documentaries, auteur animation, alternative drama and digital content
- [The BRICS hit a wall: Manthorpe](https://canadianjournalist.ca/the-brics-hit-a-wall-manthorpe/) - Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa have not lived up to the grandiose hopes expressed for them 13 years ago, when it was predicted the developing countries would soon overtake the world's top economies, writes International Affairs columnist Jonathan Manthorpe. An excerpt of today's column: There is probably little hope that when Terence James
- [Moldova Teeters on Edge of Ukraine Turmoil](https://canadianjournalist.ca/moldova-teeters-on-edge-of-ukraine-turmoil/) - The global focus on Ukraine should expand to include Moldova, warns International Affairs analyst Jonathan Manthorpe Polls suggest that only 44 per cent of Moldovans favour EU membership, while support for a customs union with Russia has grown from 30 per cent a few months ago to 40 per cent now. Moscow’s opaque intentions are adding
- [Rethinking Cancer: non-sexy, low-cost therapies](https://canadianjournalist.ca/rethinking-cancer-non-sexy-low-cost-therapies/) - Increasingly, Big Pharma is betting on new blockbuster cancer drugs that cost billions to develop and can be sold for thousands of dollars a dose. In 2010, each of the top 10 cancer drugs topped more than $1 billion in sales, according to Campbell Alliance, a health-care consulting firm. A decade earlier, only two of
- [Scottish Independence: complex and vexatious](https://canadianjournalist.ca/scottish-independence-complex-and-vexatious/) - Scots will vote in a referendum on September 18 on separation from the United Kingdom. But the division of assets and liabilities in the break-up of a country is complex and vexatious - and in the case of Scotland, these matters are particularly difficult. The latest polls in Scotland, with the undecided vote discounted, shows 52
- [Findings: Earth Day Videos from the BBC](https://canadianjournalist.ca/findings-earth-day-videos-from-the-bbc/) - In honour of Earth Day and all this week, the BBC is running archive clips celebrating more than 50 years of natural history film-making by Sir David Attenborough. In the video below, from the BBC's Blue Planet series, a leopard seal hunts Emperor penguins in the Antarctic. You can find others on the BBC Earth
- [New: Hurricane Carter, and U.S. Gun Violence Research](https://canadianjournalist.ca/new-hurricane-carter-and-u-s-gun-violence-research/) - For Canadian journalist Cheryl Hawkes, Rubin (Hurricane) Carter's death over Easter brought back memories about the quiet, private and powerful man who was, for a while, her neighbour in Toronto. You will find her column in our Loose Leaf salon -- along with a video of Bob Dylan's song dedicated to Carter. Also today F&O
- [Weibo, the Free Market, and Censorship](https://canadianjournalist.ca/weibo-the-free-market-and-censorship/) - Weibo, “China’s Twitter,” has begun offering shares on one of America's free market stock exchanges. But unlike in the United States, where freedom of expression is protected, in China social media companies rely on censorship for their business model. Weibo's regulatory disclosures reveal a company’s balancing act between censoring too much and too little. An
- [Putin's playbook, Taiwan protests, and China's ambition](https://canadianjournalist.ca/putins-playbook-taiwan-protests-and-chinas-ambition/) - A Chinese take-over of Taiwan would make Putin’s annexation of Crimea look like a tea party.
- [McNiven on the New World of Book Publishing ](https://canadianjournalist.ca/mcniven-on-the-new-world-of-book-publishing/) - Jim McNiven, author and academic -- and now book marketer -- reflects on how publishing has changed since he first began writing academic books. An excerpt: Mimi’s is a restaurant chain in the southwestern United States that my wife, Jane, and I like for lunch. It has a good soup and sandwich combo within a
- [Oscar Pistorius and South Africa's class justice](https://canadianjournalist.ca/oscar-pistorius-and-south-africas-class-justice/) - The murder trial of Oscar Pistorius, the "Blade Runner" Olympian, reveals as much about the ugly face of South African class justice as it does about the details of the case.
- [Profile: a baby doctor who advocated abortion rights](https://canadianjournalist.ca/profile-a-baby-doctor-who-advocated-abortion-rights/) - Like so many other doctors who perform abortions, Dr. Garson Romalis started because of a tragic case. More than 50 years ago, before abortion was permitted in Canada, he was an aspiring obstetrician/gynecologist. “I was assigned the case of a young woman who had died of a septic abortion. She had aborted herself using slippery
- [Easter, Kepler-186f, and Exploding Judas ](https://canadianjournalist.ca/easter-kepler-186f-and-exploding-judas/) - A report that astronomers have found a planet in the constellation Cygnus, which they named Kepler-186f, turned Chris Wood's thoughts to humanity's chance of escaping earth. "Star Trek childhoods and a present of holodeck-quality technology inspire dreams of the ultimate geographic cure. We’ve raped this planet to a fare-thee-well? No prob. On to the next."
- [Saudi Prince who Charmed and Smarmed is Sacked](https://canadianjournalist.ca/saudi-prince-who-charmed-and-smarmed-is-sacked/) - International affairs analyst Jonathan Manthorpe has reported on the doings of Prince Bandar bin Sultan, Saudi Arabia’s intelligence chief, since the prince was a fixture in the American administrations of Ronald Reagan and both Bushes. "Many saw him as a pernicious influence on these Republican administrations," writes Manthorpe in today's column -- especially in the
- [Gabriel García Márquez dies, age 87](https://canadianjournalist.ca/gabriel-garcia-marquez-dies-87/) - Nobel laureate Gabriel García Márquez died today, age 87, in Mexico City. Born and raised in Aracataca, Colombia, he set out to become a lawyer, veered into journalism, and went on to become one of the world's most prolific creators of literary masterpieces, including One Hundred Years of Solitude and Love in the Time of
- [The Goldilock World in Cygnus](https://canadianjournalist.ca/the-goldilock-world-in-cygnus/) - A cosmic finding: astronomers have discovered Kepler-186f, which NASA calls "the first validated Earth-size planet to orbit a distant star in the habitable zone ... (it) confirms that Earth-size planets exist in the habitable zones of other stars and signals a significant step closer to finding a world similar to Earth." The search for a
- [Racial resegregation in the American south](https://canadianjournalist.ca/racial-resegregation-in-the-american-south/) - Sixty years after the United States Supreme Court outlawed “separate but equal” schools, Nikole Hannah-Jones of journalism organization ProPublica went to Tuscaloosa, Ala., to investigate the resegregation of Southern schools. Her series begins today, April 17. Segregation Now: 60 Years After Brown v. Board from ProPublica on Vimeo. A short documentary film
- [Interviews for The World's Toughest Job](https://canadianjournalist.ca/interviews-for-the-worlds-toughest-job/) - Interviews were held for the World's Toughest Job. The requirements: Standing up almost always Constant attendance on an associate Constant exertion Work hours: 135+ per week Degrees in medicine, finance and culinary arts necessary No holidays Increased duties on traditional holidays No time to sleep Salary = $0 Watch the recorded reactions of the applicants
- [Hong Kong's prospects for reform dire: Manthorpe](https://canadianjournalist.ca/hong-kongs-prospects-for-reform-dire-manthorpe/) - International affairs analyst Jonathan Manthorpe writes today on the crisis looming over Hong Kong, and the fraught relationship between its citizens and Beijing. An excerpt: A crisis is fast approaching in the relations between Beijing and the people of Hong Kong, a relationship which has been on a downhill slide since the territory was returned
- [Moon Eclipse](https://canadianjournalist.ca/moon-eclipse/) - A full eclipse of the moon will occur overnight, visible in the Western hemisphere for three hours from late Monday April 14 (in western time zones) and early Tuesday April 15 (in the east). The United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) will stream a live feed of the eclipse, here, for some three
- [Pulitzer Prize for journalism on secret surveillance](https://canadianjournalist.ca/pulitzer-prize-for-journalism-on-secret-surveillance/) - The Guardian and the Washington Post newspapers were the big winners of the prestigious Pulitzer Prizes for public service journalism Monday, for their reporting on spying by American security agencies. Pulizter announced the two news organizations shared the prize for Public Service: Awarded to The Washington Post for its revelation of widespread secret surveillance by
- [Desmond Tutu on climate change, Keystone, and divestment](https://canadianjournalist.ca/desmond-tutu-on-climate-change-keystone-and-divestment/) - Nobel laureate Desmond Tutu has launched a campaign to persuade people to divest themselves of holdings in the fossil fuel industry and, specifically, to stop construction of the Keystone pipeline from Canada's oil sands through the United States to the Gulf of Mexico. "Twenty-five years ago people could be excused for not knowing much, or
- [Jesse Winchester, R.I.P.](https://canadianjournalist.ca/jesse-winchester-r-i-p/) - Jesse Winchester died today at his home in Virginia, age 69. He had reportedly been suffering from cancer. He is best known as a singer-songwriter from the United States but -- like many Canadians -- I think of him as a Draft Dodger, a designation most Canadians view as a badge of honour. During the
- [The real "climategate" scandal isn't scientific, it's journalistic](https://canadianjournalist.ca/the-real-climategate-scandal-isnt-scientific-its-journalistic/) - By Chris Wood I can’t speak with authority on science. But after 35 years and a score of honours for documentaries, articles and books, I do know a thing or two about journalism. So I’ll let the academy decide whether the email behind 'climategate' exposed any scientific fraud. But I can say this: The real scandal
- [On Fred Phelps and the Westboro church](https://canadianjournalist.ca/on-fred-phelps-and-the-westboro-church/) - It is mortifying for many Christians that Fred Phelps defined himself as one, writes Cheryl Hawkes in her inaugural piece for Facts and Opinions: a column about a man so filled with hate that his church's web site is "godhatesfags.com." Phelps' death has given the people he hurt and offended a moral choice, Hawkes argues;
- [Indonesian "saviour" fails first test: Manthorpe](https://canadianjournalist.ca/indonesian-saviour-fails-first-test-manthorpe/) - International affairs analyst Jonathan Manthorpe examines the prospects for better governance in Indonesia, following the failure of Joko Widodo, the touted "white knight," to persuade enough people to support him. An excerpt: For months the political life of Indonesia has been throbbing with the expectation that the hugely popular mayor of Jakarta, Joko “Jokowi” Widodo,
- [The pluck of one Irishman](https://canadianjournalist.ca/the-pluck-of-one-irishman/) - Irishman Brian Brennan on how he will celebrate St. Patrick's day.
- [Rwanda revisited 20 years later.](https://canadianjournalist.ca/rwanda-revisited-20-years-later/) - A look back at the Rwandan genocide by journalists who were there.
- [Findings: Movement and music ](https://canadianjournalist.ca/findings-movement-and-music/) - Canadian music professor Bob Pritchard has a tech fix for what ails live electronic music: it's not sufficiently alive. His solution is to fuse technology with dance, in an "laptop orchestra" composed of musicians, dancers, composers, programmers and hardware specialists, drawn from both Arts and Science and Engineering at the University of British Columbia in
- [Iran's President on a High Wire](https://canadianjournalist.ca/irans-president-on-a-high-wire/) - Only political and social reform in Iran will deliver the ultimate guarantee that Tehran does not build atomic weapons.
- [In the far north, the future is here](https://canadianjournalist.ca/in-the-far-north-the-future-is-here/) - Warming in the Mackenzie River delta already exceeds levels forecasters say will be "catastrophic."
- [Food, water, health, livelihoods already hit by climate change: IPCC](https://canadianjournalist.ca/food-water-health-livelihoods-already-hit-by-climate-change-ipcc/) - The effects of human-caused climate change are already evident on all continents and waters, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change said today in a massive report, in the panel's most plain language yet. Climate Change 2014: Impacts, Adaptation, and Vulnerability warned of “pervasive risks” depending on the amount of future climate change — but said
- ["Sunflower" occupation stymies China/Taiwan rapprochement](https://canadianjournalist.ca/sunflower-occupation-stymies-chinataiwan-rapprochement/) - International affairs analyst Jonathan Manthorpe writes in today’s column: It was only a matter of time before the efforts by Taiwan’s President Ma Ying-jeou to improve relations with Beijing came up against the brutal truth that the vast majority of the island’s 23 million people do not want to be part of China. Many Taiwanese
- [China: anti-corruption drive -- or bid for unrivalled authority?](https://canadianjournalist.ca/china-anti-corruption-drive-or-bid-for-unrivalled-authority/) - In China the anti-corruption drive of President and Communist Party leader Xi Jinping is now well on the way to becoming a drive for unrivalled authority.
- [Leave Ukraine to the Russians: Manthorpe](https://canadianjournalist.ca/leave-ukraine-to-the-russians-manthorpe/) - Leave Ukraine to the Russians, says International affairs analyst Jonathan Manthorpe. Excerpt of the column: It may have slipped the memory of certain world leaders, but 15 years ago it was decided that the G-8 club of the world’s leading economies was too elite a cabal to be of much practical use. So, with Canada’s
- [Journalists collateral damage in Middle East rivalries ](https://canadianjournalist.ca/journalists-collateral-damage-in-middle-east-rivalries/) - Detained journalists on trial, regional rivalries and allegations of terrorism are roiling the Middle East. International affairs analyst Jonathan Manthorpe explains in a new column. Excerpt: A bitter feud among Arab states over relations with radical Islamic groups and how to confront regional rival Iran is threatening to bring new volatility to the already raging
- [Dirty air kills twice as many as previously thought: WHO](https://canadianjournalist.ca/dirty-air-kills-twice-as-many-as-previously-thought-who/) - Air pollution is now the world’s largest single environmental health risk, prematurely killing some seven million people in 2012 alone, said the World Health Organization. People die prematurely of pollution-linked strokes, ischaemic heart disease, cancer, respiratory infections and chronic obstructive pulmonary diseases (COPD), said WHO in estimates released in Geneva on March 25. The organization's
- [Privacy Tools: Mask Your Location](https://canadianjournalist.ca/privacy-tools-mask-your-location/) - by Julia Angwin, ProPublica In the course of writing my book, Dragnet Nation, I tried various strategies to protect my privacy. In this series of book excerpts and adaptations, I distill the lessons from my privacy experiments into tips for readers. "Where R U?" There's a reason that is among the most common text
- [Stillbirth and the American justice system](https://canadianjournalist.ca/stillbirth-and-the-american-justice-system/) - American activists document hundreds of cases of women detained, arrested or convicted for things authorities viewed as harmful to their unborn children.
- [Canada's health care takes a hit](https://canadianjournalist.ca/canadas-health-care-takes-a-hit/) - Canadians tend to smugness about the country's health care, but new research suggests private insurers rake in billions more than they pay in benefits. And a study published today, which examined 20 years of records, revealed that Canadians pay far more for less benefits from private insurance than do Americans. The Canadian public model stars
- [Facts and Opinions this Week](https://canadianjournalist.ca/factsandopinions-this-week-2/) - Independent, non-partisan and employee-owned, F&O is funded by readers. We do not carry advertising or solicit donations from foundations or causes. Our original work is available for a $1 site day pass or at a modest subscription price. St. Patrick's day kicked off the past week, and F&O's resident Irishman, Brian Brennan, explained in The
- [Arbroath: Scotland's original declaration of independence](https://canadianjournalist.ca/arbroath-scotlands-original-declaration-of-independence/) - The Scottish diaspora celebrates National Tartan Day today, a celebration that includes Australia, Canada and the United States, of the Scots who have spread around the world. In this video professor and author Ted Cowan talks about the historical links of the 1320 Declaration of Arbroath and the American Declaration of Independence, and the possibility
- [Findings, a video: Something New](https://canadianjournalist.ca/findings-a-video-something-new/) - For a Monday-morning break from the weight of the world, English singer-songwriter Tom Fletcher serenading his wife, Giovanna Falcone, through pregnancy
- [FactsandOpinions this Week](https://canadianjournalist.ca/factsandopinions-this-week/) - Fresh up on FactsandOpinions: commentary, reporting -- and one very cool video of an unusual musical performance. Take time out for some slow journalism in a week fraught with the mysterious disappearance of a Malaysian airliner, and growing tensions between Russia and the West over Ukraine. In Sound Art, by F&O photojournalist and web designer
- [South Africa's solidarity unravelling](https://canadianjournalist.ca/south-africas-solidarity-unravelling/) - South Africa's unlikely alliance, of forces drawn together by opposition to apartheid, was always expected to unravel, notes international affairs analyst Jonathan Manthorpe. That is now happening because, with public disgust at corruption and incompetence within the African National Congress (ANC) government -- and not least a scorching new report by the nation's Public Protector,
- [Global contrapment, Rube Goldberg style](https://canadianjournalist.ca/global-contrapment-rube-goldberg-style/) - The earth compared to a Rube Goldberg machine - speeding out of control.
- [Do corporate funds trump publicly-funded science?](https://canadianjournalist.ca/do-corporate-funds-trump-publicly-funded-science/) - Researchers measured the impact of corporate versus public or government-funded research -- and found that corporate funding had widespread benefits.
- [Findings, Science. The Beginning of Everything we Know](https://canadianjournalist.ca/findings-science-the-beginning-of-everything-we-know/) - Evidence of gravitational waves reported by researchers working at the South Pole.
- [Frederick W. Taylor: the man who made us](https://canadianjournalist.ca/frederick-w-taylor-the-man-who-made-us/) - Our world is Taylor-built, and we don't even realize it because, rhetorically asks Jim McNiven in his new Thoughtlines column, "Does a fish know it's wet?
- [Sound Art](https://canadianjournalist.ca/sound-art/) - Lithophone. Percussion instrument made with rocks at Sound Symposium in Doctor's Cove, Newfoundland.
- [A lost airliner triggers China's fear of Uighers](https://canadianjournalist.ca/a-lost-airliner-triggers-chinas-fear-of-uighers/) - Muslim Uighers want Chinese-occupied Xinjiang, which they call East Turkmenistan, back - and fear of Uigher militancy is spreading in China.
- [Putin vs Obama: who is in step with the times?](https://canadianjournalist.ca/putin-vs-obama-who-is-in-step-with-the-times/) - Democracy is struggling or under threat in much of the world, from Ukraine and other former Soviet satellites to the Arab world to Latin America.
- [Edward Snowden writes to Europe](https://canadianjournalist.ca/edward-snowden-writes-to-europe/) - Report on Edward Snowden's testimony to members of the European Parliament
- [F&O Weekend](https://canadianjournalist.ca/weekender/) - F&O's rich selection of reports, analysis and commentary this weekend includes: new Commentary pieces by Chris Wood and Jonathan Manthorpe, and an Arts note on Norway's choice of a design to memorialize the country's horrific 2011 slaying. A Dispatch from ProPublica reviews research on the health impact of fracking for natural gas, while in Expert
- [Fake trial and setback for Malaysia's opposition leader](https://canadianjournalist.ca/fake-trial-and-setback-for-malaysias-opposition-leader/) - For 16 years Malaysia's establishment has managed to thwart the political efforts of the country's opposition leader, whose followers have remained loyal despite the horrendous allegations against him. Now, once again, a Malaysian court has dealt him a setback.
- [Lookin' for love - not to get fracked](https://canadianjournalist.ca/lookin-for-love-not-to-get-fracked/) - Rules for corporations that want to take "my" planet out for a date at the mines, the oil well, or the multi-acre Walmart parking lot.
- [Chinese imperialism ignored amid Ukraine-Russia debate ](https://canadianjournalist.ca/chinese-imperialism-ignored-amid-ukraine-russia-debate/) - Despite the Ukraine issue, the would-be imperial power is China, not Russia.
- [F&O Weekend](https://canadianjournalist.ca/fo-weekend-4/) - Weekend reading on F&O includes a thoughtful essay on human security, a note on an American state's dalliance with discrimination, and a disturbing allegation that criminal gangs are behind suppression of democratic reform in Hong Kong. The Decline in Global Violence. Expert Witness essay, by Andrew Mack (Public access) In the new Human Security
- [Triads suspected in brutal attack on Hong Kong journalist ](https://canadianjournalist.ca/triads-suspected-in-brutal-attack-on-hong-kong-journalist/) - Brutal attack on Kevin Lau Chun-to, a prominent journalist in Hong Kong, raises specter of Chinese triads called in to suppress democratic reform movement.
- [Dark North Korea](https://canadianjournalist.ca/dark-north-korea/) - Dramatic photograph from the International Space Station illustrates the stark difference between North and South Korea.
- [Monday](https://canadianjournalist.ca/findings-snowtime-video/) - Video by Ivanov Vyacheslav
- [Findings: Mavis Gallant, a documentary portrait](https://canadianjournalist.ca/findings-mavis-gallant-a-documentary-portrait/) - Documentary radio portrait of Mavis Gallant, selected readings
- [F&O Weekend](https://canadianjournalist.ca/fo-weekend-3/) - The weekend lineup of slow journalism, from Facts and Opinions
- [Chris Wood: roads paved with good intentions](https://canadianjournalist.ca/chris-wood-roads-paved-with-good-intentions/) - Chris Wood on voluntary business sustainability standards.
- [European Union's role in Ukraine mayhem: analysis](https://canadianjournalist.ca/europe-unions-role-in-ukraine-mayhem-analysis/) - Analsys: European Union role in Ukraine violence
- [Findings: Storm Petra, in video](https://canadianjournalist.ca/findings-weathers-terrible-beauty-a-video/) - Coastal France and Britain have been thrashed by gales, drenched by rain and flooded this month. French professional photographer Philip Plisson, who specializes in ocean photography, captured storm Petra as it hit the French coast:
- [Research shows infections spread from domestic to wild bees](https://canadianjournalist.ca/research-shows-infections-spread-from-domestic-to-wild-bees/) - Agricultural crops from almonds to zucchini are necessarily pollinated by bees, both managed and wild -- but colonies of all bees have been collapsing, for reasons that are likely complex and but dimly understood. That's why it matters, and not least to human food security, that researchers have now found that two infections common in
- [North Korea: China expected to veto action on UN report](https://canadianjournalist.ca/north-korea-china-expected-to-veto-action-on-un-report/) - By citing China, the UN ensured that China will use its Security Council veto to block action on recommendations in North Korea report, predicts analyst
- [Findings: social media matters](https://canadianjournalist.ca/findings-social-media-matters/) - The big picture matters. Yesterday a heart-wrenching photo on Twitter spread wildly. It appeared to show a little boy separated from his family as they fled Syria's violence: "UN staff found 4 year-old Marwan crossing desert alone after being separated from family..." UN staff found 4 year-old Marwan crossing desert alone after being separated
- [Findings: Ukraine protests in real time](https://canadianjournalist.ca/findings-ukraine-protests-in-real-time/) - Espresso TV streams clashes in real time.
- [The way of wolves](https://canadianjournalist.ca/the-way-of-wolves/) - Some 20 years ago gray wolves were re-introduced to Yellowstone Park in the United States. Their impact has been a transformation of an ecosystem, in ways that few scientists had imagined. But even as the animals are celebrated as a "keystone" species their future remains in doubt, and their reputation in some circles is as
- [F&O Weekend](https://canadianjournalist.ca/fo-weekend-2/) - F&O wraps up the week with an eclectic range of slow journalism from the past, present and future: Critical Assembly: A Drama Critic Remembers Berlin. Two years before the wall came down, in 1987, historian and author Brian Brennan joined 139 other writers from 40 countries in Berlin, for an international conference on theatre on the
- [A Cultural Crossroads](https://canadianjournalist.ca/a-cultural-crossroads/) - Cultural institutions are much-needed in cosmopolitan and multicultural societies, but are in a period of great danger
- [Findings: Valentine tunes](https://canadianjournalist.ca/findings-valentine-tunes/) - Greetings on Valentine's day, with a new ditty from American singer-songwriter (and journalist) Andy Revkin. ... and if a slight country tang is not your thing, here -- just because -- is Peggy Lee's unforgettable jazz classic Fever, from the 1950s:
- [Journalism matters: conflicts of interest](https://canadianjournalist.ca/journalism-matters-conflicts-of-interest/) - Alleged conflict of interest is discussed.
- [China and Taiwan, head to head](https://canadianjournalist.ca/china-and-taiwan-head-to-head/) - Jonathan Manthorpe's column on the issues at stake as Taiwan and China stage a historic meeting.
- [F&O Weekend](https://canadianjournalist.ca/fo-weekend/) - New features and columns on F&O
- [Massacre's long trail leads to 10-Year Sentence](https://canadianjournalist.ca/massacres-long-trail-leads-to-10-year-sentence/) - American court sentenced former Guatemalan Army commander for immigration crimes - linked to 1982 massacre in Guatemalan village.
- [Findings: Mannequins with hearts](https://canadianjournalist.ca/findings-mannequins-with-hearts/) - Artist models fashion mannequins on people with disabilities, for their turn in the spotlight on Zurich’s Bahnhofstrasse.
- [Executions and backlash loom over Iran rapprochement](https://canadianjournalist.ca/executions-and-backlash-loom-over-iran-rapprochement/) - Money is flowing into Iran again, amid signs hardliners oppose reform; including a dramatic upsurge in executions.
- [Findings: Zoetrope Video Art](https://canadianjournalist.ca/findings/) - British video artist Reuben Sutherland teams with "noise artist" Dan Hayhurst to create remarkable works on vinyl, such as the one in this video. Sutherland and Hayhurst call their visual/music collaboration Sculpture; they specialize in zoetrope-video art. Those prone to migraines or vertigo might think twice about viewing. Plastic Infinite from Sculpture on Vimeo.
- [Afghanistan's unsavoury presidential choices](https://canadianjournalist.ca/afghanistans-unsavoury-presidential-choices/) - Who will be Afghanistan's next elected leader?
- [R.I.P., Philip Seymour Hoffman](https://canadianjournalist.ca/r-i-p-philip-seymour-hoffman/) - Philip Seymour Hoffman is reported dead at age 46
- [China recruits Erik Prince as its new Africa bodyguard  ](https://canadianjournalist.ca/china-recruits-erik-prince-as-its-new-africa-bodyguard/) - Beijing has hired one of the world’s most famous mercenaries, Erik Prince, to protect its interests in Africa.
- [Coups threaten Thailand's controversial leaders](https://canadianjournalist.ca/coups-threaten-thailands-controversial-leaders/) - Government and politics are in such turmoil in Thailand that some citizens are even re-thinking its one-person-one vote democratic structure. International affairs columnist Jonathan Manthorpe looks at the history and recent reasons for clashes between the protesting "elites" and the rural voters who are behind its leadership. An excerpt of Manthorpe’s new column: Not only Thailand’s
- [Singin' for Freedom: Pete Seeger](https://canadianjournalist.ca/singin-for-freedom-pete-seeger/) - Silver Donald Cameron remembers Pete Seeger's generosity to a little girl, and his inspiration after 9/11
- [On the science of handedness and brain symmetry](https://canadianjournalist.ca/on-the-science-of-handedness-and-brain-symmetry/) - A science essay on handedness and brain asymmetry, once regarded as uniquely human but widespread among animals, and a factor in language and tool use.
- [Rethinking bias, left or right](https://canadianjournalist.ca/rethinking-bias-left-or-right/) - Column: Bias is found not only on the right, but also in reflexive opposition by the left to nuclear power, markets, transmission lines and GMO foods.
- [On corporations and democratizing prosperity: McNiven](https://canadianjournalist.ca/on-corporations-and-democratizing-prosperity-mcniven/) - The "corporation" has lately been vilified in polarized political discourse -- but not so long ago, it was the political "left" that championed corporations
- [Shattering Canada's solitudes](https://canadianjournalist.ca/shattering-canadas-solitudes/) - Disagreements by minorities opposed to Quebec's proposed charter of values help Quebec's argument they're needed to bolster unity.
- [Roe V. Wade: a selction of American reporting on abortion](https://canadianjournalist.ca/roe-v-wade-a-selction-of-american-reporting-on-abortion/) - ProPublica's selection of American reporting on the 41st anniversary of Roe vs. Wade.
- [Energy: riches and shackles ](https://canadianjournalist.ca/energy-riches-and-shackles/) - The Law of Conservation in physics says energy can be neither created nor destroyed, only transformed. But lawless politics have no such constraints — and here the role of energy has ceaselessly expanded, and come to dominate economics and polarize politics. F&O introduces our first theme: Energy. Throughout 2014 our journalists will, in words and
- [On faith and humanity in a Kenyan slum](https://canadianjournalist.ca/on-faith-and-humanity-in-a-kenyan-slum/) - Sheldon Fernandez recounts his last day volunteering in a slum near Nairobi, and the hard lessons it taught.
- [Newfoundland and Labrador premier resigns](https://canadianjournalist.ca/newfoundland-and-labrador-premier-resigns/) - Newfoundland and Labrador Premier, Kathey Dunderdale resigns her office. Photo by Greg Locke © 2014 - www.greglocke.com
- [Build a better password; the world won't beat a path through your door](https://canadianjournalist.ca/build-a-better-password-the-world-wont-beat-a-path-through-your-door/) - Tips on building a better password
- [Findings: Beauty](https://canadianjournalist.ca/findings-beauty/) - Beginning with Shakespeare Sonnet no. 9 and ending, as does all life, with death, a work of art that brings sound and animation to masterpieces.
- [Week in Review](https://canadianjournalist.ca/week-in-review-4/) - New work on F&O this week includes a column by Chris Wood about an aspect of climate chaos that is often ignored: the extremes that kill, compared to averages of which climate scientists speak. The average, writes Wood in Natural Security, is a mathematical fiction that obscures dangerous realities. The recent death of gun inventor
- [Arab Winter of Discontent Lingers](https://canadianjournalist.ca/arab-winter-of-discontent-lingers/) - The democratic promise of the Arab Spring, more than three years after it began, has yet to be realized -- analysis.
- [Extremes, more than averages, are the killers](https://canadianjournalist.ca/its-the-extremes-more-than-the-averages-that-can-kill/) - A cold snap in parts of the world have fueled climate-change deniers. They're forgetting that nobody lives in the averages.
- [On the real weapon of mass destruction](https://canadianjournalist.ca/on-the-real-weapon-of-mass-destruction/) - The Russian inventor of the AK-47, Mikhail Kalashnikov, died last month aged 94. In life he publicly denied responsibility for what became of his weapon: politics and politicians bore responsibility for the millions killed with it, he said. Last week, a newspaper published a letter in which he said he felt guilt-ridden. International affairs columnist
- [Privacy Tools: How to Safely Browse the Web](https://canadianjournalist.ca/privacy-tools-how-to-safely-browse-the-web/) - Tips on browsing the Internet and protecting your privacy
- [Analysis: Will Thailand's military again intervene?](https://canadianjournalist.ca/analysis-will-thailands-military-again-intervene/) - Expect turmoil next week in Thailand’s dysfunctional political culture. Will the military intervene in the expected fracas between red shirts and yellow shirts?
- [Week in Review](https://canadianjournalist.ca/week-in-review-3/) - Climate chaos dominated world news again this week. A heat wave broke records in Western Australian, with reports of tens of thousands of bats falling dead from the sky and kangaroos collapsing. Meanwhile frozen residents of the northern hemisphere became acutely aware of the existence of a polar vortex -- a fierce whirlwind that usually
- [Analysis: Iran and United States join forces against common foes](https://canadianjournalist.ca/analysis-iran-and-united-states-join-forces-against-common-foes/) - Column on Tehran and Washington battling common foes as turmoil grows in Iraq and Syria.
- [Science and Abortion: an interview with Tracy Weitz](https://canadianjournalist.ca/science-and-abortion-an-interview-with-tracy-weitz/) - Tracy Weitz has been one of the most prominent abortion researchers in the United States.
- [Week in Review](https://canadianjournalist.ca/week-in-review-2/) - The week in review
- [Analysis: Turkey's military, Islamists, and prime minister](https://canadianjournalist.ca/analysis-turkeys-military-islamists-and-prime-minister/) - Columnist Jonathan Manthorpe examines the roles of the military and Islamists in the desperate quest by Turkey's prime minister to cling to political power.
- [Column: we are not individuals, we are collectives](https://canadianjournalist.ca/column-we-are-not-individuals-we-are-collectives/) - The individual of pop cultural celebrity, moody novels, philosophy, and Darwinian economic ideology, is a fantasy.
- [Analysis: China's belligerence, Southeast Asia's arms race, and 1914](https://canadianjournalist.ca/analysis-chinas-belligerence-southeast-asias-arms-race-and-1914/) - The hundredth anniversary of the start of the First World War is hardly upon us and the air is already thick with speculation it might happen again.
- [Analysis: Political survival of Turkey's PM at stake](https://canadianjournalist.ca/analysis-political-survival-of-turkeys-pm-at-stake/) - International affairs columnist Jonathan Manthorpe examines the mess that Turkey’s Prime Minister made for himself, and which now threatens his political survival.
- [The Newfoundland Mummers ](https://canadianjournalist.ca/the-newfoundland-mummers/) - The annual Mummers Parade in St. John's, Newfoundland. Photography and recording by Greg Locke © 2013 - www.greglocke.com
- [F&O’s WEEK IN REVIEW](https://canadianjournalist.ca/fos-week-in-review/) - New work on Facts and Opinions – and selected reading and viewing from elsewhere in the week past: This week Facts and Opinions welcomed aboard Jim McNiven with his new regular column, Thoughtlines, in Commentary. In his inaugural column, Bill, Shane and Jim, McNiven tells the tale of three men who changed the modern
- [Solstice!](https://canadianjournalist.ca/solstice-2/)
- [Analysis: Japan's military and Asian storm clouds](https://canadianjournalist.ca/analysis-japans-military-and-asian-storm-clouds/) - International affairs columnist Jonathan Manthorpe examines the symbolism of Japanese and Indian military exercises, and their relevance to China.
- [Analysis: Conflict in South Sudan](https://canadianjournalist.ca/analysis-conflict-in-south-sudan/) - Unfulfilled vengeance hangs over rival clans in South Sudan -- and there is an awful predictability about where it will lead. Opinion column.
- ["Regret the error, we do" - once we stop laughing](https://canadianjournalist.ca/regret-the-error-we-do-once-we-stop-laughing/) - Blog post about Poynter Institute's corrections and errors of 2013.
- [Introducing Thoughtlines, a new column by Jim McNiven](https://canadianjournalist.ca/introducing-thoughtlines-a-new-column-by-jim-mcniven/) - Facts and Opinions is pleased to introduce Thoughtlines, a column by Jim McNiven, author and professor of public policy and economic development
- [Headliners](https://canadianjournalist.ca/headliners-2/) - A snapshot this week from the surveillance beat: Writers of the world call for end to mass online surveillance Five Nobel literature laureates are among 560 international writers who today have put their names to an appeal, “A stand for democracy in the digital age”, against widespread “mass surveillance” by governments and corporations. It is,
- [F&O's WEEK IN REVIEW](https://canadianjournalist.ca/week-in-review/) - A look at F&O works in the past week, and an eclectic selection of global and local news from elsewhere.
- [A ballet of birds](https://canadianjournalist.ca/a-ballet-of-birds/) - Serendipity on the Internet: ease into the weekend with "Bird Ballet," a gift of sound and movement by Neels Castillon, a young filmmaker in France who filmed this murmeration of starlings near Marseille. A bird ballet from Neels CASTILLON on Vimeo.
- [Analysis: power struggles in Beijing and Pyongyang ](https://canadianjournalist.ca/analysis-power-struggles-in-beijing-and-pyongyang/) - Jonathan Manthorpe's international affairs column on the power struggles in the corridors of power in Beijing and Pyongyang.
- [Nelson Mandela, R.I.P.](https://canadianjournalist.ca/nelson-mandela-r-i-p/) - Nelson Mandela, 95, is dead.
- [Analysis: South Africa's nightmare](https://canadianjournalist.ca/analysis-south-africas-nightmare-2/) - There is little evidence that Nelson Mandela's message of peace and reconciliation was heard or understood in South Africa.
- ["The Wire" creator David Simon on modern America as a "horror show" ](https://canadianjournalist.ca/the-wire-creator-david-simon-on-modern-america-as-a-horror-show/) - Journalist and television writer David Simon speaks to the Festival of Dangerous Ideas about what went wrong with America
- [Introducing F&O's Expert Witness series](https://canadianjournalist.ca/introducing-fos-expert-witness-series/) - Introducing F&O's new section of works by experts in their fields.
- [Art tackles big data](https://canadianjournalist.ca/art-tackles-big-data/) - German artists use data and surveillance for their work
- [Nelson Mandela too good for government leadership](https://canadianjournalist.ca/nelson-mandela-too-good-for-government-leadership/) - The tolerance, forgiveness, respect and loyalty to friends, comrades and family that made Mandela a saintly public figure framed his government leadership.
- [Headliners](https://canadianjournalist.ca/headliners/) - A snapshot of the police beat in Toronto with juxtaposed headlines

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- [Kevin Lau Chun-to](https://canadianjournalist.ca/tag/kevin-lau-chun-to/)
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- [Oil and Gas Accountability Project](https://canadianjournalist.ca/tag/oil-and-gas-accountability-project/)
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- [The Endocrine Disruption Exchange](https://canadianjournalist.ca/tag/the-endocrine-disruption-exchange/)
- [Independent Petroleum Association of America](https://canadianjournalist.ca/tag/independent-petroleum-association-of-america/)
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- [Robert Howarth](https://canadianjournalist.ca/tag/robert-howarth/)
- [birth defects](https://canadianjournalist.ca/tag/birth-defects/)
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- [Flight MH370](https://canadianjournalist.ca/tag/flight-mh370/)
- [Global Times](https://canadianjournalist.ca/tag/global-times/)
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- [Al Jazeera](https://canadianjournalist.ca/tag/al-jazeera/)
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- [Mohamed Fahmy](https://canadianjournalist.ca/tag/mohamed-fahmy/)
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- [IPCC](https://canadianjournalist.ca/tag/ipcc/)
- [genocide](https://canadianjournalist.ca/tag/genocide/)
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- [Anja Niedringhaus](https://canadianjournalist.ca/tag/anja-niedringhaus/)
- [Kathy Gannon](https://canadianjournalist.ca/tag/kathy-gannon/)
- [Economic Co-operation and Framework Agreement](https://canadianjournalist.ca/tag/economic-co-operation-and-framework-agreement/)
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- [Legislative Yuan](https://canadianjournalist.ca/tag/legislative-yuan/)
- [sunflower occupation](https://canadianjournalist.ca/tag/sunflower-occupation/)
- [Wang Jin-pyng](https://canadianjournalist.ca/tag/wang-jin-pyng/)
- [Tucson Festival of Books](https://canadianjournalist.ca/tag/tucson-festival-of-books/)
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- [Tzeporah Berman](https://canadianjournalist.ca/tag/tzeporah-berman/)
- [Ali Khamenei](https://canadianjournalist.ca/tag/ali-khamenei/)
- [Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps](https://canadianjournalist.ca/tag/islamic-revolutionary-guard-corps/)
- [P5+1](https://canadianjournalist.ca/tag/p51/)
- [Synthetic music](https://canadianjournalist.ca/tag/synthetic-music/)
- [University of British Columbia laptop orchestra](https://canadianjournalist.ca/tag/university-of-british-columbia-laptop-orchestra/)
- [Bob Pritchard](https://canadianjournalist.ca/tag/bob-pritchard/)
- [Oscar Pistorius](https://canadianjournalist.ca/tag/oscar-pistorius/)
- [Blade Runner](https://canadianjournalist.ca/tag/blade-runner/)
- [Reeva Steenkamp](https://canadianjournalist.ca/tag/reeva-steenkamp/)
- [Shrien Dewani](https://canadianjournalist.ca/tag/shrien-dewani/)
- [Desmond Nair](https://canadianjournalist.ca/tag/desmond-nair/)
- [Open Society Foundation for South Africa](https://canadianjournalist.ca/tag/open-society-foundation-for-south-africa/)
- [Jakarta](https://canadianjournalist.ca/tag/jakarta/)
- [Joko “Jokowi” Widodo](https://canadianjournalist.ca/tag/joko-jokowi-widodo/)
- [Party of Struggle](https://canadianjournalist.ca/tag/party-of-struggle/)
- [Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono](https://canadianjournalist.ca/tag/susilo-bambang-yudhoyono/)
- [Genetically modified organisms](https://canadianjournalist.ca/tag/genetically-modified-organisms/)
- [United States Congress](https://canadianjournalist.ca/tag/united-states-congress/)
- [GMO Labeling](https://canadianjournalist.ca/tag/gmo-labeling/)
- [Agriculture](https://canadianjournalist.ca/tag/agriculture/)
- [Mike Pompeo](https://canadianjournalist.ca/tag/mike-pompeo/)
- [Food](https://canadianjournalist.ca/tag/food/)
- [U.S. Food And Drug Administration](https://canadianjournalist.ca/tag/u-s-food-and-drug-administration/)
- [Fred Phelps](https://canadianjournalist.ca/tag/fred-phelps/)
- [Westboro Baptist Church](https://canadianjournalist.ca/tag/westboro-baptist-church/)
- [gay rights](https://canadianjournalist.ca/tag/gay-rights/)
- [same sex marrriage](https://canadianjournalist.ca/tag/same-sex-marrriage/)
- [Cheryl Hawkes](https://canadianjournalist.ca/tag/cheryl-hawkes/)
- [Garson Romalis](https://canadianjournalist.ca/tag/garson-romalis/)
- [United States Supreme Court](https://canadianjournalist.ca/tag/united-states-supreme-court/)
- [segregation](https://canadianjournalist.ca/tag/segregation/)
- [Separate but Equal](https://canadianjournalist.ca/tag/separate-but-equal/)
- [Jesse Winchester](https://canadianjournalist.ca/tag/jesse-winchester/)
- [Vietnam war](https://canadianjournalist.ca/tag/vietnam-war/)
- [draft dodgers](https://canadianjournalist.ca/tag/draft-dodgers/)
- [Desmond Tutu](https://canadianjournalist.ca/tag/desmond-tutu/)
- [Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change](https://canadianjournalist.ca/tag/intergovernmental-panel-on-climate-change/)
- [Keystone Pipeline](https://canadianjournalist.ca/tag/keystone-pipeline/)
- [divestment](https://canadianjournalist.ca/tag/divestment/)
- [Moon](https://canadianjournalist.ca/tag/moon/)
- [eclipse](https://canadianjournalist.ca/tag/eclipse/)
- [Legislative Council](https://canadianjournalist.ca/tag/legislative-council/)
- [Anson Chan](https://canadianjournalist.ca/tag/anson-chan/)
- [Martin Lee](https://canadianjournalist.ca/tag/martin-lee/)
- [Mother's Day](https://canadianjournalist.ca/tag/mothers-day/)
- [World's Toughest Job](https://canadianjournalist.ca/tag/worlds-toughest-job/)
- [Mullen Boston](https://canadianjournalist.ca/tag/mullen-boston/)
- [American Greetings](https://canadianjournalist.ca/tag/american-greetings/)
- [civil rights movement](https://canadianjournalist.ca/tag/civil-rights-movement/)
- [racism](https://canadianjournalist.ca/tag/racism/)
- [Gabriel García Márquez](https://canadianjournalist.ca/tag/gabriel-garcia-marquez/)
- [One Hundred Years of Solitude](https://canadianjournalist.ca/tag/one-hundred-years-of-solitude/)
- [Love in teh Time of Cholera](https://canadianjournalist.ca/tag/love-in-teh-time-of-cholera/)
- [Nobel Prize for Literarure](https://canadianjournalist.ca/tag/nobel-prize-for-literarure/)
- [Kepler-186f](https://canadianjournalist.ca/tag/kepler-186f/)
- [Bandar bin Sultan](https://canadianjournalist.ca/tag/bandar-bin-sultan/)
- [Judas](https://canadianjournalist.ca/tag/judas/)
- [Easter](https://canadianjournalist.ca/tag/easter/)
- [human survival](https://canadianjournalist.ca/tag/human-survival/)
- [great extinction](https://canadianjournalist.ca/tag/great-extinction/)
- [Weibo](https://canadianjournalist.ca/tag/weibo/)
- [NASDAQ](https://canadianjournalist.ca/tag/nasdaq/)
- [Charles Xue](https://canadianjournalist.ca/tag/charles-xue/)
- [Xue Manzi](https://canadianjournalist.ca/tag/xue-manzi/)
- [censorship](https://canadianjournalist.ca/tag/censorship/)
- [Factory Theatre](https://canadianjournalist.ca/tag/factory-theatre/)
- [Canadian Journalists for Free Expression](https://canadianjournalist.ca/tag/canadian-journalists-for-free-expression/)
- [Sandy Hook](https://canadianjournalist.ca/tag/sandy-hook/)
- [National Rifle Association](https://canadianjournalist.ca/tag/national-rifle-association/)
- [Adam Lanza](https://canadianjournalist.ca/tag/adam-lanza/)
- [Rubin Carter](https://canadianjournalist.ca/tag/rubin-carter/)
- [Hurricane Carter](https://canadianjournalist.ca/tag/hurricane-carter/)
- [Wrongful convictions](https://canadianjournalist.ca/tag/wrongful-convictions/)
- [Boxing](https://canadianjournalist.ca/tag/boxing/)
- [Huricane Carter](https://canadianjournalist.ca/tag/huricane-carter/)
- [gun violence](https://canadianjournalist.ca/tag/gun-violence/)
- [Centers for Disease Control](https://canadianjournalist.ca/tag/centers-for-disease-control/)
- [Garen Wintermute](https://canadianjournalist.ca/tag/garen-wintermute/)
- [Gun control](https://canadianjournalist.ca/tag/gun-control/)
- [Violence Prevention Research Program](https://canadianjournalist.ca/tag/violence-prevention-research-program/)
- [Earth Day](https://canadianjournalist.ca/tag/earth-day/)
- [Blue PLanet](https://canadianjournalist.ca/tag/blue-planet/)
- [BBC](https://canadianjournalist.ca/tag/bbc/)
- [Sir David Attenborough](https://canadianjournalist.ca/tag/sir-david-attenborough/)
- [Scotland](https://canadianjournalist.ca/tag/scotland/)
- [Independence movements](https://canadianjournalist.ca/tag/independence-movements/)
- [Alex Salmond](https://canadianjournalist.ca/tag/alex-salmond/)
- [Gordon Brown](https://canadianjournalist.ca/tag/gordon-brown/)
- [NATO](https://canadianjournalist.ca/tag/nato/)
- [cancer](https://canadianjournalist.ca/tag/cancer/)
- [colon cancer](https://canadianjournalist.ca/tag/colon-cancer/)
- [Big Pharma](https://canadianjournalist.ca/tag/big-pharma/)
- [Global Cures](https://canadianjournalist.ca/tag/global-cures/)
- [financial orphans](https://canadianjournalist.ca/tag/financial-orphans/)
- [metronome therapy](https://canadianjournalist.ca/tag/metronome-therapy/)
- [National Institutes of Health](https://canadianjournalist.ca/tag/national-institutes-of-health/)
- [British Health Service](https://canadianjournalist.ca/tag/british-health-service/)
- [Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America](https://canadianjournalist.ca/tag/pharmaceutical-research-and-manufacturers-of-america/)
- [Moldova](https://canadianjournalist.ca/tag/moldova/)
- [Romania](https://canadianjournalist.ca/tag/romania/)
- [Soviet Union](https://canadianjournalist.ca/tag/soviet-union/)
- [Europe](https://canadianjournalist.ca/tag/europe/)
- [Tiraspol](https://canadianjournalist.ca/tag/tiraspol/)
- [BRICS](https://canadianjournalist.ca/tag/brics/)
- [Brazil](https://canadianjournalist.ca/tag/brazil/)
- [International Olympic Committee](https://canadianjournalist.ca/tag/international-olympic-committee/)
- [2016 Olympic Games](https://canadianjournalist.ca/tag/2016-olympic-games/)
- [Horse racing](https://canadianjournalist.ca/tag/horse-racing/)
- [Northern Dancer](https://canadianjournalist.ca/tag/northern-dancer/)
- [Kentucky Derby](https://canadianjournalist.ca/tag/kentucky-derby/)
- [Ryan Goldberg](https://canadianjournalist.ca/tag/ryan-goldberg/)
- [E.P. Taylor](https://canadianjournalist.ca/tag/e-p-taylor/)
- [Charles Taylor](https://canadianjournalist.ca/tag/charles-taylor/)
- [Windfields Farm](https://canadianjournalist.ca/tag/windfields-farm/)
- [Alex Harthill](https://canadianjournalist.ca/tag/alex-harthill/)
- [Barn 24](https://canadianjournalist.ca/tag/barn-24/)
- [Lasix](https://canadianjournalist.ca/tag/lasix/)
- [doping](https://canadianjournalist.ca/tag/doping/)
- [National Film Board of Canada](https://canadianjournalist.ca/tag/national-film-board-of-canada/)
- [Robert Mugabe](https://canadianjournalist.ca/tag/robert-mugabe/)
- [ZANU-PF](https://canadianjournalist.ca/tag/zanu-pf/)
- [Mnangagwa](https://canadianjournalist.ca/tag/mnangagwa/)
- [Tsvangirai](https://canadianjournalist.ca/tag/tsvangirai/)
- [The Danish Poet](https://canadianjournalist.ca/tag/the-danish-poet/)
- [Insurance](https://canadianjournalist.ca/tag/insurance/)
- [environmental risk](https://canadianjournalist.ca/tag/environmental-risk/)
- [digital surveillance](https://canadianjournalist.ca/tag/digital-surveillance/)
- [Encryption](https://canadianjournalist.ca/tag/encryption/)
- [SXSW](https://canadianjournalist.ca/tag/sxsw/)
- [inter-continental ballistic missile](https://canadianjournalist.ca/tag/inter-continental-ballistic-missile/)
- [Capital Punishment](https://canadianjournalist.ca/tag/capital-punishment/)
- [Lethal injections](https://canadianjournalist.ca/tag/lethal-injections/)
- [death penalty](https://canadianjournalist.ca/tag/death-penalty/)
- [ASEAN](https://canadianjournalist.ca/tag/asean/)
- [Association of Southeast Asian Nations](https://canadianjournalist.ca/tag/association-of-southeast-asian-nations/)
- [Constitution Project](https://canadianjournalist.ca/tag/constitution-project/)
- [Mark Vogelsberger](https://canadianjournalist.ca/tag/mark-vogelsberger/)
- [Niwatthamrong Boonsongpaisan](https://canadianjournalist.ca/tag/niwatthamrong-boonsongpaisan/)
- [yellow shirts](https://canadianjournalist.ca/tag/yellow-shirts/)
- [red shirts](https://canadianjournalist.ca/tag/red-shirts/)
- [members-only](https://canadianjournalist.ca/tag/members-only/)
- [West Antarctic Ice Sheet](https://canadianjournalist.ca/tag/west-antarctic-ice-sheet/)
- [Story](https://canadianjournalist.ca/tag/story/)
- [pictures](https://canadianjournalist.ca/tag/pictures/)
- [dead](https://canadianjournalist.ca/tag/dead/)
- [blue](https://canadianjournalist.ca/tag/blue/)
- [whales](https://canadianjournalist.ca/tag/whales/)
- [ROM](https://canadianjournalist.ca/tag/rom/)
- [Royal Ontario Museum](https://canadianjournalist.ca/tag/royal-ontario-museum/)
- [Woody Point](https://canadianjournalist.ca/tag/woody-point/)
- [Trout River](https://canadianjournalist.ca/tag/trout-river/)
- [Rockey Harbour](https://canadianjournalist.ca/tag/rockey-harbour/)
- [Gros Morne](https://canadianjournalist.ca/tag/gros-morne/)
- [national](https://canadianjournalist.ca/tag/national/)
- [park](https://canadianjournalist.ca/tag/park/)
- [DFO](https://canadianjournalist.ca/tag/dfo/)
- [Parks Canada](https://canadianjournalist.ca/tag/parks-canada/)
- [Gen. Prayuth Chan-ocha](https://canadianjournalist.ca/tag/gen-prayuth-chan-ocha/)
- [The Normal Heart](https://canadianjournalist.ca/tag/the-normal-heart/)
- [HBO](https://canadianjournalist.ca/tag/hbo/)
- [AIDS](https://canadianjournalist.ca/tag/aids/)
- [Larry Kramer](https://canadianjournalist.ca/tag/larry-kramer/)
- [Mark Ruffalo](https://canadianjournalist.ca/tag/mark-ruffalo/)
- [Julia Roberts](https://canadianjournalist.ca/tag/julia-roberts/)
- [Taylor Kitsch](https://canadianjournalist.ca/tag/taylor-kitsch/)

## Picture tag

- [Bosnia](https://canadianjournalist.ca/ngg_tag/bosnia/)
- [war](https://canadianjournalist.ca/ngg_tag/war/)
- [balkans](https://canadianjournalist.ca/ngg_tag/balkans/)
- [Sarajevo](https://canadianjournalist.ca/ngg_tag/sarajevo/)
- [Canadian Armed Forces](https://canadianjournalist.ca/ngg_tag/canadian-armed-forces/)
- [Canadian Peacekeepers](https://canadianjournalist.ca/ngg_tag/canadian-peacekeepers/)
- [IFOR](https://canadianjournalist.ca/ngg_tag/ifor/)
- [NATO](https://canadianjournalist.ca/ngg_tag/nato/)
- [UN](https://canadianjournalist.ca/ngg_tag/un/)
- [Dayton Accord](https://canadianjournalist.ca/ngg_tag/dayton-accord/)
- [conflict](https://canadianjournalist.ca/ngg_tag/conflict/)